Article 26 Power to remove exemption for private dwellings from completion notices

Paragraph 1 of Schedule 8B to the principal Order (new buildings – service of completion notices) shall be amended as follows.

In sub-paragraph (6) (completion notice not to be served if building is, or when next in use will be, used wholly for the purposes of a private dwelling), for the word “The” there shall be substituted the words “Except as provided by an order made by the Department, the”.

After that sub-paragraph there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—

“(7)

The Department shall not make an order under sub-paragraph (6) unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.

(8)

An order under sub-paragraph (6) may contain such incidental, supplemental and transitional provisions as the Department considers necessary or expedient, including provisions modifying this Schedule.”.