The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2010 No. 2215

Regulation 16(1)

SCHEDULE 4 E+W Grounds for Rejecting a Final Certificate

Deficiencies in form and information E+W

Form E+W

1.  The certificate is not in the prescribed form.

Work E+W

2.  The certificate does not describe the work to which it relates.

[F1 Optional requirements E+W

F2 2A.   The certificate does not contain information—

(a) whether or not the work concerns a new dwelling; or

(b) in the case of a new dwelling, information whether or not one or more, and if so which, of the following optional requirements applies to the building work—

(i) regulation 36(2)(b) (optional water efficiency requirement of 110 litres per person per day),

(ii) Schedule 1 Part M optional requirement M4(2) (category 2- accessible and adaptable dwellings),

(iii) Schedule 1 Part M optional requirement M4(3) (category 3- wheelchair user dwellings).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 4 para. 2A inserted (E.) (W. but only in relation to excepted energy buildings) (1.10.2015) by The Building Regulations &c. (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/767), regs. 1(4)(b), 3(6) (with regs. 1(3), 4)

F2 Sch. 4 para. 2A omitted (W. in relation to excepted energy buildings) (8.6.2018) by virtue of The Building Regulations &c. (Amendment) (Excepted Energy Buildings) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/558), regs. 1(2), 25(a) (with reg. 29)

Absence of power to give certificate E+W

No initial notice E+W

3.  No initial notice was in force with respect to the work described in the certificate at the time the certificate was given.

Capacity of approved inspector E+W

4.  An initial notice was in force with respect to the work described in the certificate at the time the certificate was given, but—

(a) the certificate is not signed by the approved inspector who gave that notice, or

(b) that person is no longer an approved inspector.

Lack of declarations E+W

Insurance E+W

F3 F4 5.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. 4 para. 5 omitted (E.) (28.7.2022) by virtue of The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/718), regs. 1(3), 2(8)

F4 Sch. 4 para. 5 omitted (W.) (28.7.2022) by virtue of The Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments) (Approved Inspectors) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/767), regs. 1(3), 2(8)

Independence E+W

6.  Except where the work to which it relates is stated in the certificate to be minor work within the meaning of regulation 9(5), the certificate does not contain a declaration by the approved inspector that the approved inspector has not since giving that notice had any professional or financial interest in that work.