{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-regulators-charges-regulations-2023/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-regulators-charges-regulations-2023/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/965",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Safety (Regulator’s Charges) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-safety-regulators-charges-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Charges for monitoring and regulatory intervention to ensure compliance",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a person must pay the charge arising from the performance of the chargeable functions under sub-paragraphs (s) and (t) of regulation 3(2) if the regulator has reasonable grounds to believe that the person may contravene, is contravening or has contravened a building enactment or a requirement imposed by virtue of a building enactment.\n(2) A charge for the performance of a chargeable function under sub-paragraphs (s) or (t) of regulation 3(2) must not include any costs which are connected with a criminal investigation or prosecution and which are incurred, in either case, after the date on which any information is laid by the regulator.\n(3) Where a charge is payable under paragraph (1) by—\n(a) a person who was acting in their capacity as an employee, that person’s employer must pay the charge; or\n(b) a resident or owner of a residential unit in an occupied higher-risk building, the principal accountable person for that building must pay the charge.\n(4) A charge is not payable under paragraph (1) in relation to an investigation under section 58H, 58T or 58Z3 of the 1984 Act by—\n(a) a registered building inspector if the regulator’s investigation concludes that they have not breached the code of conduct or been guilty of professional misconduct; or\n(b) a registered building control approver if the regulator’s investigation concludes that they have not contravened the professional conduct rules or the operational standards rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Prepared and published under section 58F of the 1984 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See definition of professional misconduct in section 58H of the 1984 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Prepared and published under section 58R of the 1984 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Prepared and published under section 58Z of the 1984 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/965/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:02.745602+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."
}