{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022-commencement-no-4-transitional-and-saving-provisions-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022-commencement-no-4-transitional-and-saving-provisions-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Safety Act 2022 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022-commencement-no-4-transitional-and-saving-provisions-wales-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provision: approved inspectors who do not become registered building control approvers",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where an approved inspector has not become a suitably qualified registered building control approver before 6 April 2024.\n(2) Where an approved inspector is overseeing higher-risk building work before 6 April 2024, then—\n(a) an approved inspector must not continue to oversee higher-risk building work on or after 6 April 2024;\n(b) any initial notice submitted by the approved inspector in respect of higher-risk building work is cancelled;\n(c) responsibility for overseeing higher-risk building work will transfer to the local authority.\n(3) Where an approved inspector is overseeing building work that is not higher-risk building work, then—\n(a) until but not including 1 October 2024, an approved inspector may continue to oversee building work;\n(b) any initial notices submitted by the approved inspector will cease to be in force on 1 October 2024;\n(c) any building work that is not completed before 1 October 2024 will transfer to the local authority unless a registered building control approver, who is not the same person as the approved inspector, has submitted a new initial notice for that work and the notice is accepted or is deemed to be accepted;\n(d) until but not including 1 October 2024, an approved inspector may continue to issue a plans certificate, a final certificate, and an amendment notice in respect of building work.\n(4) Where an amendment notice is issued before 1 October 2024 and that notice changes the nature of the building work specified in the initial notice so that it becomes higher-risk building work, such work must be transferred to the local authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the definition of “plans certificate” in section 50 of the Building Act 1984."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the definition of “final certificate” in section 51 of the Building Act 1984."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See the definition of “amendment notice” in section 51A of the Building Act 1984."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/207/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:01:25.573689+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."
}