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(1)The building control authority may give a stop notice to a person appearing to the authority to be in control of any work if it appears to the authority that—
(a)the carrying out of the work would contravene a provision of building regulations prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph,
(b)a compliance notice relating to the work has been contravened, or
(c)the work contravenes a provision of building regulations or a requirement imposed by virtue of such a provision, and the risk of serious harm condition is met.
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1)(c) the “risk of serious harm condition” is that use of the building in question without the contravention having been remedied would be likely to present a risk of serious harm to people in or about the building.
(3)A “stop notice” is a notice prohibiting, either immediately or from a specified time, the carrying out of specified work until the occurrence of such of the following as may be specified—
(a)the taking of specified steps;
(b)the occurrence of specified circumstances;
(c)the remedying of a specified contravention or the matters giving rise to it.
(4)Where a stop notice is contravened, the person to whom the notice was given commits an offence.
(5)A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—
(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum summary term for either-way offences or a fine (or both);
(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine (or both);
and (in either case) is liable on summary conviction to a further fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale for each day on which the default continues after the initial conviction.
(6)It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to prove that the person took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the contravention of the stop notice.
(7)In this section “specified” means specified in the notice.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 35B-35D and cross-heading inserted (6.4.2023 for specified purposes except in relation to W., 5.9.2023 for W. for specified purposes, 1.10.2023 in so far as not already in force except in relation to W.) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), ss. 38(1), 170(4)(b)(c); S.I. 2023/362, reg. 3(1)(q); S.I. 2023/914, reg. 2(b)(v); S.I. 2023/993, reg. 2(h)
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