{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-21.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/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) Subject to Article 5A(7), any person who contravenes—\n(a) any provision contained in building regulations; or\n(b) a contravention notice,\nshall be guilty of an offence under this Order.\n(1A) Any person who—\n(a) gives a notice or certificate or makes an application that—\n(i) purports to comply with the requirements of this Order or of any provision contained in building regulations; and\n(ii) contains a statement that that person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or\n(b) recklessly gives a notice or certificate or makes an application that—\n(i) purports to comply with those requirements; and\n(ii) contains a statement that is false or misleading in a material particular,\nis guilty of an offence under this Order.\n(2) Any person guilty of an offence—\n(a) under Article 11(6) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale;\n(b) under any other provision of this Order shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale and to a further fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 5 on the standard scale for each day during which the offence continues after he is convicted.\n(3) The court by which a person is originally convicted of an offence referred to in paragraph (2)(b) may fix a reasonable period from the date of conviction for the defendant to comply with any directions given by the court and where the court has fixed such a period, the daily fine referred to in paragraph (2)(b) shall not be recoverable in respect of any day before the period expires.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1990 NI 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 21(1) substituted (15.5.2012) by Building Regulations (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 4), ss. 5(2), 15(4); S.R. 2012/186, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 21(1A) inserted (31.8.2009) by Building Regulations (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 4), ss. 10, 15(4); S.R. 2009/272, art. 2(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1709/article/21",
    "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."
}