{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-44ZAA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-44ZAA.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2214",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/44ZAA",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44ZAA",
  "heading": "Particulars of connection to public electronic communications network",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to building work consisting of the erection of a dwelling or a building that is to contain one or more dwellings.\n(2) Not later than the day before the work described in paragraph (1) starts, the person carrying out that work shall supply to the building control authority—\n(a) particulars of any public electronic communications network in relation to which a connection is to be provided,\n(b) if an exemption in regulation 44ZB is proposed to be relied on, evidence in support of the exemption, and\n(c) if regulation 44ZC is proposed to be relied on—\n(i) evidence of the matters mentioned in regulation 44ZC(6)(a) and (b), and\n(ii) if paragraph RA1(1)(c)(i) or (ii) of Schedule 1 is also proposed to be relied on, evidence of the steps taken to establish whether, and if so where, a distribution point for a gigabit-capable public electronic communications network (as defined by regulation 44C) is likely to be installed, in a location relevant for the purposes of paragraph RA1(1)(c), within the period of 2 years beginning with the day on which either a building notice, initial notice or public body’s notice is given..\n(3) Where the building control authority is a designated local authority under section 91ZD of the Act, it must send a copy of the information it receives under this regulation in relation to a building to the local authority for the area in which the building is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 9A inserted (W. but not in relation to excepted energy buildings) (8.4.2016) by The Building (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/361), regs. 1(4), 2(4) (with regs. 1(3), 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Regs. 44ZAA-44ZC inserted (W.) (1.7.2025) by The Building etc. (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/377), regs. 1(3), 4(2)(b) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 44ZAA(2) substituted (W.) (1.7.2026) by The Building etc. (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1320), regs. 1(2), 6(21)(a) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 44ZAA(2)(c)(ii) substituted (W.) (1.7.2026) by The Building etc. (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1320), regs. 1(2), 15(2) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 44ZAA(3) inserted (W.) (1.7.2026) by The Building etc. (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1320), regs. 1(2), 6(21)(b) (with reg. 19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2214/regulation/44ZAA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:48.980832+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}