Approved inspector’s insurance (new regulation 5A)
3. After regulation 5, insert—
“Approved inspector’s insurance
5A.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an approved inspector who gives a notice or certificate specified in paragraph (2) to a local authority must ensure that, before or on the date of the notice or certificate, the person who approved that inspector (the Welsh Ministers or a body designated under regulation 3 as the case may be) is in possession of a declaration of insurance in respect of the work to which the notice or certificate relates.
(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a notice or certificate given on or after 10 February 2014 which is—
(a)an initial notice;
(b)an amendment notice;
(c)a plans certificate;
(d)a combined initial notice and plans certificate; or
(e)a final certificate.
(3) In this regulation a “declaration of insurance” means a declaration of insurance signed by the insurer that a named scheme of insurance approved by the Welsh Ministers applies to the approved inspector in relation to the building work to which the notice or certificate relates.”