The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 Preliminary

    1. 1.Citation, commencement, extent and application

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 Building control approval

    1. CHAPTER 1 New HRBs

      1. 3.Building control approval for HRB work or stage of HRB work

      2. 4.Building control approval applications for HRB work or stage of HRB work

      3. 5.Building control approval applications for HRB work or stage of HRB work: validity and time limit

      4. 6.Building control approval applications for HRB work or stage of HRB work: consultation

      5. 7.Building control approval applications for HRB work or stage of HRB work: decisions

      6. 8.Regulator’s power to require notifications etc for HRB work or stage of HRB work

      7. 9.Notice before starting on site and further notice when work is “commenced”

    2. CHAPTER 2 Existing HRBs

      1. 10.Notification of emergency repairs to existing HRB

      2. 11.Building control approval for work to existing HRB

      3. 12.Building control approval applications for work to existing HRB

      4. 13.Building control approval applications for work to existing HRB: validity and time limit

      5. 14.Building control approval applications for work to existing HRB: consultation

      6. 15.Building control approval applications for work to existing HRB: decisions

      7. 16.Regulator’s power to require notifications etc for work to existing HRB

      8. 17.Notice before starting on site and further notice when work is “commenced”

  4. PART 3 Changes before or during construction

    1. 18.Change control

    2. 19.Change control: record-keeping

    3. 20.Change control: notification requirements

    4. 21.Change control applications

    5. 22.Change control applications: validity and time limit

    6. 23.Change control applications: consultation

    7. 24.Change control applications: decisions

    8. 25.Change control: regulator power to specify notifiable changes and major changes

    9. 26.Change control: major changes and notifiable changes

    10. 27.New client etc

    11. 28.Insolvency etc of the client: notifications

    12. 29.New principal contractor or principal designer etc: notification

    13. 30.Variation of a requirement imposed on a building control approval

  5. PART 4 Golden thread, mandatory occurrence reporting, information handover etc

    1. 31.Golden thread

    2. 32.Mandatory occurrence reporting system

    3. 33.Mandatory occurrence reporting: reporting to the regulator

    4. 34.Mandatory occurrence reporting: defences

    5. 35.Mandatory occurrence reporting: definitions

    6. 36.Mandatory occurrence reporting: regulator’s annual report

    7. 37.Mandatory occurrence reporting: client duty on appointment of principal contractor or principal designer

    8. 38.Handover of information on completion etc

    9. 39.Information to be provided where work is scheme work

  6. PART 5 Completion certificates

    1. 40.Completion certificate applications

    2. 41.Completion certificate applications: validity and time limit

    3. 42.Completion certificate applications: consultation

    4. 43.Completion certificate applications: inspection

    5. 44.Completion certificate applications: decisions

    6. 45.Partial completion certificates

  7. PART 6 Inspections etc, regularisation, review of decisions, appeals and section 30A procedures etc

    1. 46.Inspections etc

    2. 47.Regularisation of unauthorised building work

    3. 48.Review of regulator’s decisions

    4. 49.Appeal in relation to reviewed decisions

    5. 50.Section 30A prescribed applications

    6. 51.Section 30A applications: procedure

    7. 52.Section 30A applications: electronic submissions

    8. 53.Section 30A applications: determinations

    9. 54.Section 30A applications: appointed persons

    10. 55.Deemed rejection of the original application

    11. 56.Section 30A applications: appeals

  8. PART 7 Miscellaneous

    1. 57.Exempt work

    2. 58.Requirement for completion certificate before occupation and transitional cases

    3. 59.Electronic submission and directions

    4. 60.Contraventions by the regulator not to be subject to enforcement

    5. 61.Provisions in relation to which a stop notice may be given

    6. 62.Local land charges

    7. 63.Consequential amendment to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005

    8. 64.Consequential amendments to the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010

    9. 65.Consequential amendments to the Building Safety (Responsible Actors Scheme and Prohibitions) Regulations 2023

    10. 66.Transitional, supplementary and saving provisions

  9. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Documents

      1. 1.Competence declaration

      2. 2.Construction control plan

      3. 3.Change control plan

      4. 4.Building Regulations compliance statement

      5. 5.Fire and emergency file

      6. 6.Partial completion strategy

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Exempt work

      1. 1.Work consisting of— (a) in relation to an existing fixed...

      2. 2.Installation of thermal insulation to suspended timber floors where the...

      3. 3.For the purposes of this Schedule— “fixed building service” has...

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Transitional, supplementary and saving provisions

      1. PART 1 Transitional etc provisions

        1. 1.October 2023: HRB work and work to existing HRB

        2. 2.From October 2023: cases where full plans are rejected

        3. 3.October 2023 to April 2024: cases where building control approval lapses before 6th April 2024

        4. 4.October 2023 to April 2024: cases of not sufficiently progressed work where an initial notice is cancelled before 6th April 2024

        5. 5.October 2023 to April 2024: cases of sufficiently progressed work where an initial notice is cancelled before 6th April 2024

        6. 6.From April 2024: local authority to notify regulator where work has not sufficiently progressed

        7. 7.From April 2024: cases where work is to be regarded as sufficiently progressed

        8. 8.From April 2024: cases of work not sufficiently progressed with an initial notice

        9. 9.From April 2024: cases of work not sufficiently progressed with full plans

        10. 10.From April 2024: cases where work has sufficiently progressed but approved inspector is not a registered building control approver

        11. 11.From April 2024: cases where work has sufficiently progressed and then initial notice ceases

      2. PART 2 Enforcement and interpretation

        1. 12.Contravention of certain provisions not to be an offence etc

        2. 13.Interpretation

  11. Explanatory Note