Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994/3140 (“the principal Regulations”)—
by substituting a new definition of “designer” in regulation 2(1) (regulation 2); and
by introducing, as regulation 2(3A), provision that any reference in them to a person preparing a design shall include a reference to his employee or other person under his control preparing it for him (regulation 3),
thereby ensuring that the duty in paragraph (2) of regulation 13 (requirements on designer) applies to a person where his employee or other such person prepares it for him.
These Regulations delete the words “the property of” (which are otiose) from regulation 12(2) of the principal Regulations (regulation 4).
These Regulations amend regulation 13(1) of the principal Regulations so that the requirement in it does not apply to an employer who supplies his employee to a designer (regulation 5).