The Building (Registered Building Control Approvers etc.) (England) Regulations 2024

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 General

   1. 1. Citation, extent, application and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART 2 Registered building control approvers

   1. 3. Independence of approvers

   2. 4. Functions of approvers

   3. 5. Modifications of 2010 Regulations etc.

4. PART 3 Notices and certificates etc.

   1. 6. Form, grounds and period for rejecting initial notice

   2. 7. Invalid notices or certificates

   3. 8. Form, grounds and period for rejecting amendment notice

   4. 9. Consultation with the fire and rescue authority

   5. 10. Consultation with the sewerage undertaker

   6. 11. Plans certificate

   7. 12. Effect of plans certificate

   8. 13. Form, grounds and period for rejecting final certificate

   9. 14. Form of notice under section 51C of the 1984 Act

   10. 15. Notice before starting work and further notice when work is “commenced” etc.

   11. 16. Lapse of initial notice: commencement of work

   12. 17. Notification of dutyholders

   13. 18. Compliance declarations

   14. 19. Events causing initial notice to cease to be in force

   15. 20. Cancellation of initial notices: forms etc.

   16. 21. Cancellation of initial notice: notice of contravention of building regulations

5. PART 4 Transfer of projects back to local authority

   1. 22. Local authority powers in relation to partly completed work

   2. 23. Periods within which information on work to which an initial notice relates must be provided

6. PART 5 Transfer of projects to another approver

   1. 24. Section 53(7): prescribed provision

   2. 25. Information to be included in transfer certificates

   3. 26. Grounds for rejecting a transfer certificate and transfer report

   4. 27. Cases where a further initial notice may be given after cancellation of an initial notice under section 53D

7. PART 6 Appeals under Part 2 of the 1984 Act

   1. 28. Appeal under section 50(2) of the 1984 Act

   2. 29. Appeals under section 55 of the 1984 Act

8. PART 7 Registers of notices etc. and registration of approvers

   1. 30. Register of notices and certificates

   2. 31. Registration periods

   3. 32. Notices to local authorities on disciplinary matters in relation to approvers

   4. 33. Review of regulator’s decisions under Part 2A of the 1984 Act

   5. 34. Appeal in relation to reviewed decisions

9. PART 8 Miscellaneous

   1. 35. Contravention of certain regulations not to be an offence or be subject to a compliance notice

   2. 36. Consequential amendments to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and transitional provision

   3. 37. Consequential amendments to the Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 2010

   4. 38. Amendments to the Building Regulations 2010 and transitional provision

   5. 39. Consequential amendment to the Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 and transitional provision

   6. 40. Consequential amendments to the Building Safety (Registration of Higher-Risk Buildings and Review of Decisions) (England) Regulations 2023

   7. 41. Consequential amendments to the Building (Restricted Activities and Functions) (England) Regulations 2023

   8. 42. Amendments to the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023

   9. 43. Revocations

   10. 44. Transitional provisions: approved inspectors who became approvers

   11. 45. Transitional provisions: approved inspectors who did not become approvers

   12. 46. Transitional provisions: higher-risk building work regarded as sufficiently progressed

   13. 47. Transitional provisions: cases where building work supervised by approved inspector is not completed before October 2024

   14. 48. Interpretation of Part 8

10. Signature

11. 1. SCHEDULE 1

       Forms

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       Grounds for Rejecting an Initial Notice, an Amendment Notice or a Plans Certificate Combined with an Initial Notice

       1. 1. Form

       2. 2. Wrong local authority

       3. 3. Capacity of approver

       4. 4. Additionally, in the case of an amendment notice, the person...

       5. 5. Breach of section 54B

       6. 6. Information about the proposed work

       7. 7. Fire and rescue authority

       8. 8. Sewerage undertaker

       9. 9. Independence

       10. 10. Drain connection

       11. 11. Local enactments

       12. 12. Commencement of work

       13. 13. Earlier notice

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       Grounds for rejecting a plans certificate or plans certificate combined with an initial notice

       1. 1. Form

       2. 2. Wrong building control authority

       3. 3. Work

       4. 4. Optional requirements

       5. 5. Plans

       6. 6. No initial notice

       7. 7. Capacity of approver

       8. 8. Breach of section 54B

       9. 9. Fire and rescue authority

       10. 10. Sewerage undertaker

       11. 11. Independence

    4. SCHEDULE 4

       Grounds for rejecting a final certificate

       1. 1. Form

       2. 2. Wrong building control authority

       3. 3. Work

       4. 4. Optional requirements

       5. 5. No initial notice

       6. 6. No plans certificate

       7. 7. Capacity of approver

       8. 8. Breach of section 54B

       9. 9. Lack of fire safety information confirmation

       10. 10. Independence

    5. SCHEDULE 5

       Grounds for rejecting a transfer certificate and transfer report

       1. 1. Required information

       2. 2. Wrong local authority

       3. 3. No initial notice

       4. 4. Capacity of approver

       5. 5. Breach of section 54B

       6. 6. Earlier notice

       7. 7. Local authority action

       8. 8. Failure to provide information requested

12. Explanatory Note