{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-47C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-47C.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2214",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/47C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47C",
  "heading": "Stop notices: contents",
  "text": "(1) A stop notice given by a building control authority must be in writing and state—\n(a) that it is a stop notice under section 35C(1)(a), 35C(1)(b) or, as the case may be, 35C(1)(c) of the Act;\n(b) the date the notice is given and whether the notice applies immediately, or where it does not apply immediately, the date when it applies;\n(c) the name or description of the recipient; and\n(d) the consequences of failing to comply with the notice.\n(2) A stop notice must additionally—\n(a) describe the issue to which the notice relates;\n(b) specify—\n(i) in a case within section 35C(1)(a) of the Act, the provision of building regulations or requirement imposed by virtue of building regulations to which the stop notice relates;\n(ii) in a case within section 35C(1)(b) of the Act, the compliance notice to which the stop notice relates;\n(iii) in a case within section 35C(1)(c) of the Act, the provision of building regulations or requirement imposed by virtue of building regulations to which the stop notice relates;\n(c) provide details of the nature of the contravention (including, in a case within section 35C(1)(c) of the Act, the nature of the serious harm that is anticipated);\n(d) state that the recipient may appeal to the First-tier Tribunal under section 39A(5) of the Act and state that any appeal must be made within 21 relevant days of the date the notice is given; and\n(e) state that the recipient may apply to the First-tier Tribunal under section 39A(6) of the Act for a direction.\n(3) A stop notice must relate to—\n(a) in a case within section 35C(1)(a) of the Act, no more than one contravention of a prescribed provision of building regulations or requirement imposed by virtue of such a provision;\n(b) in a case within section 35C(1)(b) of the Act, no more than one compliance notice;\n(c) in a case within section 35C(1)(c) of the Act, no more than one contravention of a provision of building regulations or a requirement imposed by virtue of such a provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 47A-47H inserted (E.) (1.10.2023) by The Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/911), regs. 1(2), 16(2) (with regs. 22-24)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2214/regulation/47C",
    "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."
}