{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-act-2022-consequential-amendments-etc-regulations-2023/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2023/9780348247770",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-act-2022-consequential-amendments-etc-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Essex Act 1987",
  "text": "(1) The Essex Act 1987 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 2(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “the Act of 1984” insert—\n““application for building control approval” means an application in accordance with building regulations for building control approval (as defined in paragraph 1B of Schedule 1 to the Building Act 1984);”.\n(3) Omit section 7 (approval of plans to be of no effect after certain interval).\n(4) In section 13 (access for fire brigade)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) for “plans for the erection or extension of a building are deposited with” substitute “an application for building control approval for the erection or extension of a building is made to”;\n(ii) for “reject the plans” substitute “reject the application”;\n(iii) for “plans show” substitute “application shows”;\n(b) in subsection (3) for “Sections 16 and” substitute “Section”;\n(c) for subsection (4) substitute—\n“(4) A person aggrieved by the action of the district council in rejecting an application for building control approval under this section may appeal to the First-tier Tribunal.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. xx."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/9780348247770/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:43:26.782932+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."
}