{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-47K",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010/regulation-47K.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2214",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/47K",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47K",
  "heading": "Stop notices: contents: Wales",
  "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 magistrates’ court under section 39A(5) of the Act and state that any appeal must be made within 15 ... days of the date the notice is given, and\n(e) state that the recipient may apply to the magistrates’ court 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. 47I-47P inserted (W.) (1.7.2026) by The Building etc. (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1320), regs. 1(2), 14(2) (with reg. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 47K(2)(d) omitted (20.7.2026) by virtue of The Building etc. (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/112), regs. 1(2), 3(19)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2214/regulation/47K",
    "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."
}