{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-levy-england-regulations-2025/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-levy-england-regulations-2025/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348273779",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-levy-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Levy due date",
  "text": "(1) Building safety levy charged in respect of a chargeable application must be paid on or before the earlier of—\n(a) the completion notice date, and\n(b) the first date of occupation.\n(2) The “completion notice date” means—\n(a) in the case of an application for building control approval with full plans, the date on which a notice under regulation 16(4) of the 2010 Regulations is given, in relation to any of the building work to which the application relates, to the building control authority;\n(b) in the case of an initial notice, the date on which a notice is given, in relation to any of the building work to which the application relates, to the registered building control approver under regulation 18 of the RBCA Regulations;\n(c) in the case of a higher-risk building application the earlier of—\n(i) the date on which a completion certificate application, in relation to any of the building work to which the higher-risk building application relates, is made to the regulator under regulation 40(1) of the HRB Regulations, or\n(ii) the date on which a partial completion certificate application, in relation to any of the building work to which the higher-risk building application relates, is made to the regulator under regulation 45(2) of the HRB Regulations.\n(3) The “first date of occupation” means—\n(a) if the chargeable application relates to one relevant residential building or part of one relevant residential building, the date on which that building, or part, is first occupied, or\n(b) if the chargeable application relates to more than one relevant residential building or part of more than one relevant residential building, the date on which any of those buildings, or parts, is first occupied.\n(4) But a continuously occupied part of a relevant residential building is ignored for the purposes of determining the first date of occupation under paragraph (3).\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), a “continuously occupied part” of a building means a part of the building which—\n(a) is occupied before the start of the building work to which the chargeable application relates, and\n(b) remains occupied while the building work is carried out.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the definition of “registered building control approver” see section 58N of the 1984 Act which was inserted by section 42 of the Building Safety Act 2022."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348273779/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:50.608425+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."
}