The Building and Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No.3133

BUILDING AND BUILDINGS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Building and Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Made

1st December 2003

Laid before Parliament

10th December 2003

Coming into force

31st December 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 1(1), 35 and 47(1) of, and paragraphs 1, 2, 7, 8 and 10 of Schedule 1 to, the Building Act 1984(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Building and Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 31st December 2003.

Amendment of Regulations

2.  In each of the following regulations, for the date “1st January 2004” there shall be substituted “1st July 2004”—

(a) in the Building (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002(2), regulations 1(b), 4(1) and 4(2);

(b) in the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2002(3), regulations 1(1)(a), 4(1) and 4(2).

Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State

Phil Hope

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

1st December 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Building (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 and the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 introduced a requirement for sound insulation testing into the Building Regulations 2000 (SI. 2000/2531) and the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2000 (SI. 2000/2532). In relation to the erection of a dwelling house or a building containing flats, the requirement was to come into force on 1st January 2004. These Regulations postpone that date until 1st July 2004.

(1)

1984 c. 55. Section 47 was amended by S.I. 1996/1905.

(2)

S.I. 2002/2871.

(3)

S.I. 2002/2872.