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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/30",
  "legislation_title": "Building Safety Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-act-2022",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Overview of Act",
  "text": "(1) This Act has 6 Parts, and contains provisions intended to secure the safety of people in or about buildings and to improve the standard of buildings.\n(2) Part 2 contains provision about the building safety regulator and its functions in relation to buildings in England.\n(3) Part 3 amends the Building Act 1984.\n(4) Amendments made by Part 3—\n(a) provide that the regulator is the building control authority in relation to higher-risk buildings in England, and\n(b) require the regulator (for England) and the Welsh Ministers (for Wales) to establish and maintain registers of building control approvers and building inspectors.\n(5) Part 4 is about occupied higher-risk buildings in England, and imposes duties on accountable persons.\n(6) Part 5 contains further provisions, including—\n(a) provisions about remediation and redress;\n(b) provision requiring a new homes ombudsman scheme to be established;\n(c) powers to make provision about construction products;\n(d) further provision about fire safety;\n(e) provision about the regulation of architects;\n(f) provision about housing complaints.\n(7) Part 6 contains general provisions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 170(1)(a)"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:43.272944+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."
}