The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2010

Register of notices and certificates

30.—(1) The register which local authorities shall keep under section 56 of the Act(1) shall contain the information set out in paragraph (2) with respect to—

(a) initial notices, amendment notices, notices under section 51C of the Act(2) or public body’s notices currently in force, and

(b) certificates described in paragraph (3) which have been accepted or are presumed to have been accepted.

(2) The information to be registered is—

(a) the description of the work to which the notice or certificate relates and of the location of the work;

(b) the name and address of any person who signed the notice or certificate;

(c) the name and address of the insurer who signed any declaration which accompanied the notice or certificate; and

(d) the date on which the notice or certificate was accepted or was presumed to have been accepted.

(3) The certificates referred to in paragraph (1) are plans certificates, final certificates, public body’s plans certificates, public body’s final certificates and certificates given under section 16(9) of the Act.

(4) A register shall include an index for enabling a person to trace any entry in the register by reference to the address of the land to which the notice or certificate relates.

(5) The information prescribed in paragraph (2) shall be entered in the register as soon as practicable and in any event within 14 days of the occurrence to which it relates.

(1)

Section 56(1) to (4) is prospectively repealed by the Schedule to the Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act 2004, and section 56(1), (2) and (5) was amended by S.I. 1996/1905.

(2)

Section 51C was inserted by S.I. 1996/1905.