{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-19.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1979/1709",
  "legislation_title": "Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-order-1979",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Deposit of plans to be of no effect after certain interval",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) plans of any proposed works have, in accordance with building regulations, been deposited with a district council; and\n(b) the works to which the plans relate have not been commenced within three years from the deposit of the plans,\nthe district council may, at any time before the works are commenced, by notice to the person by whom or on whose behalf the plans were deposited, or the owner for the time being of the land to which the plans relate, declare that the deposit of the plans shall be of no effect, and when such a notice is served, this Order and the regulations made thereunder shall as respects the proposed works have effect as if that deposit had not been made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1990 NI 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1709/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:43.274492+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."
}