Paragraph 4 Projects with an existing CDM co-ordinator
This paragraph and paragraphs 5 and 6 apply where, immediately before 6th April 2015, there is a CDM co-ordinator appointed for a relevant project.
Where this paragraph applies, the appointment of the CDM co-ordinator continues to have effect for the purposes of these Regulations until a principal designer is appointed or the project comes to an end.
The client must appoint in writing a principal designer for the project before 6th October 2015 unless the project comes to an end on or before that date.
Where the appointment of a CDM co-ordinator continues to have effect under sub-paragraph (2)—
the CDM co-ordinator must comply with the duties in paragraph 5;
the duties in regulations 9(3)(b) and 12(7) to provide information to the principal designer are treated as duties to provide information to the CDM co-ordinator; and
the duty in regulation 13(5) to liaise with the principal designer is treated as a duty to liaise with the CDM co-ordinator.