Schedules
Schedule 5Minor and consequential amendments in connection with Part 3
Part 1Amendments of the Building Act 1984
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(1)
Section 8 is amended as follows.
(2)
For “Secretary of State”, in both places it occurs, substitute “appropriate national authority”
.
(3)
In subsection (1) for “he” substitute “it”
.
(4)
After subsection (3) insert—
“(3A)
If, in a case where the regulator is the building control authority—
(a)
an application for a direction under this section is made to the regulator, and
(b)
the regulator considers that the operation of a requirement in building regulations would be unreasonable in relation to the particular case,
it may give a direction dispensing with or relaxing the requirement.
(3B)
No application under subsection (1) or (2) may be made in a case where the regulator is the building control authority.”