# The Building Regulations etc. (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2025, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: E+W

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Building (Registered Building Control Approvers etc.) (England) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/110) (“the RBCA Regulations”) and the Building Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2214) (“the 2010 Regulations”) as they apply in relation to England.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 18 of the RBCA Regulations to require that, where a client is unable to provide a statement from the principal or sole contractor and/or the principal or sole designer upon completion, the notice must include a statement from the client explaining why such statements have not been provided. Regulation 9 provides for the same to be included in regulation 16 of the 2010 Regulations for completion notices relating to building works supervised by a local authority.
Regulation 4 inserts a new regulation 22A into the RBCA Regulations which sets out the notice requirements on completion for works in which an initial notice has either ceased to be in force or has been cancelled and supervision of the works has reverted to the relevant authority. Regulation 10 makes consequential amendments to the 2010 Regulations to account for the new notice requirement.
Regulation 5 prescribes that where the Building Safety Regulator has given a serious contravention order to a Registered Building Control Approver that they provide copies to each local authority in England.
Regulation 6 amends Form 10 (Notice of Cancellation by Person Carrying out Work) contained in Schedule 1 to the RBCA Regulations. It provides for a declaration to be made where the person completing the form is subject to a serious contravention notice.
Regulation 7 amends paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 of the RBCA Regulations to provide that a new initial notice cannot be given where an earlier initial notice has been cancelled by either the Registered Building Control Approver or the client and at such time the works subject are subject to a contravention notice.
Regulation 11 contains transitional arrangements. The new regulation 22A, the amendments to Form 10 and the changes to paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 do not apply where an initial notice has been cancelled before the day on which these Regulations come into force. The amendments made to the notice requirements in regulation 18 of the RBCA Regulations and regulation 16 of the 2010 Regulations do not apply to notices served before the day on which these Regulations come into force.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1017/note (the official version)
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