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Enforced by: BSR
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person6 Contractor4 Client4 Trader2

Plus 3 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

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Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Contractor — also bound by 173 other Acts

The National Health Service (Personal Medical Services Agreements) Regulations 2015 141 duties

The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015 136 duties

Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 114 duties

The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2023 94 duties

The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 89 duties

Client — also bound by 62 other Acts

Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 32 duties

The Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2025 19 duties

Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023 17 duties

Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 14 duties

Building Regulations 2010 12 duties

Trader — also bound by 825 other Acts

Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 416 duties

Companies Act 2006 243 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 133 duties

Companies Act 1985 85 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 62 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

General

0 of 2 sections shown

2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.001 Citation, extent, application and commencement

s.002 Interpretation

Part 2

Registered building control approvers

2 of 3 sections shown

s.003 Independence of approvers Regulated

Maintain independence from work you supervise as a building control approverAny Person

s.004 Functions of approvers Regulated

Registered Building Control Approvers must verify building work complianceContractor

1 other section in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.005 Modifications of 2010 Regulations etc.

Part 3

Notices and certificates etc.

12 of 16 sections shown

s.006 Form, grounds and period for rejecting initial notice Regulated

Submit initial notice in the prescribed form with required plansClient

s.007 Invalid notices or certificates Regulated

Cease using private building control for high-risk or unauthorized workClient

s.008 Form, grounds and period for rejecting amendment notice Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Local authorities must process building amendment notices within 5 working daysLocal authority

s.009 Consultation with the fire and rescue authority Regulated

Consult fire and rescue authority before issuing building control notices and certificatesAny Person

s.010 Consultation with the sewerage undertaker Regulated

Consult sewerage undertakers on building work affecting sewersContractor

s.011 Plans certificate Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Local authority must reject or accept plans certificates within five daysLocal authority

s.013 Form, grounds and period for rejecting final certificate Regulated

Issue final certificate using the prescribed Form 5Any Person

s.014 Form of notice under section 51C of the 1984 Act Regulated

Use Form 8 when changing the person carrying out building workAny Person

s.015 Notice before starting work and further notice when work is “commenced” etc. Regulated

Notify registered building control approver before starting work and after commencementAny Person

s.017 Notification of dutyholders Regulated

Notify the building control approver of dutyholder appointmentsClient

s.018 Compliance declarations Regulated

Submit a compliance declaration to the building control approverClient

s.021 Cancellation of initial notice: notice of contravention of building regulations Regulated

Business Building Control Approvers must issue a warning before cancellingContractor

4 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.012 Effect of plans certificate

s.016 Lapse of initial notice: commencement of work

s.019 Events causing initial notice to cease to be in force

s.020 Cancellation of initial notices: forms etc.

Part 4

Transfer of projects back to local authority

3 of 3 sections shown

s.022 Completion notices Regulated

Submit a completion notice after building work is finishedTrader

s.022 Local authority powers in relation to partly completed work Regulated

Provide plans and allow inspection of partly completed building workAny Person

s.023 Periods within which information on work to which an initial notice relates must be provided Regulated

Provide building work information to local authorities and clientsTrader

Part 5

Transfer of projects to another approver

1 of 4 sections shown

s.025 Information to be included in transfer certificates Regulated

Provide full information in transfer certificatesContractor

3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.024 Section 53(7): prescribed provision

s.026 Grounds for rejecting a transfer certificate and transfer report

s.027 Cases where a further initial notice may be given after cancellation of an initial notice under section 53D

Part 6

Appeals under Part 2 of the 1984 Act

0 of 2 sections shown

2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.028 Appeal under section 50(2) of the 1984 Act

s.029 Appeals under section 55 of the 1984 Act

Part 7

Registers of notices etc. and registration of approvers

1 of 5 sections shown

s.030 Register of notices and certificates Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Local authorities must maintain a register of building control documentsLocal authority

4 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.031 Registration periods

s.032 Notices to local authorities on disciplinary matters in relation to approvers

s.033 Review of regulator’s decisions under Part 2A of the 1984 Act

s.034 Appeal in relation to reviewed decisions

Part 8

Miscellaneous

0 of 14 sections shown

14 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.035 Contravention of certain regulations not to be an offence or be subject to a compliance notice

s.036 Consequential amendments to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and transitional provision

s.037 Consequential amendments to the Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 2010

s.038 Amendments to the Building Regulations 2010 and transitional provision

s.039 Consequential amendment to the Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 and transitional provision

s.040 Consequential amendments to the Building Safety (Registration of Higher-Risk Buildings and Review of Decisions) (England) Regulations 2023

s.041 Consequential amendments to the Building (Restricted Activities and Functions) (England) Regulations 2023

s.042 Amendments to the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023

s.043 Revocations

s.044 Transitional provisions: approved inspectors who became approvers

s.045 Transitional provisions: approved inspectors who did not become approvers

s.046 Transitional provisions: higher-risk building work regarded as sufficiently progressed

s.047 Transitional provisions: cases where building work supervised by approved inspector is not completed before October 2024

s.048 Interpretation of Part 8

Schedules

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47 other schedules

s.001 Forms

s.003 Grounds for rejecting a plans certificate or plans certificate combined with an initial notice

s.004 Grounds for rejecting a final certificate

s.005 Grounds for rejecting a transfer certificate and transfer report

s.sch002 Grounds for Rejecting an Initial Notice, an Amendment Notice or a Plans Certificate Combined with an Initial Notice

s.sch002 Form

s.sch002 Drain connection

s.sch002 Local enactments

s.sch002 Commencement of work

s.sch002 Earlier notice

s.sch002 Wrong local authority

s.sch002 Capacity of approver

s.sch002 Additionally, in the case of an amendment notice, the person...

s.sch002 Breach of section 54B

s.sch002 Information about the proposed work

s.sch002 Fire and rescue authority

s.sch002 Sewerage undertaker

s.sch002 Independence

s.sch003 Form

s.sch003 Sewerage undertaker

s.sch003 Independence

s.sch003 Wrong building control authority

s.sch003 Work

s.sch003 Optional requirements

s.sch003 Plans

s.sch003 No initial notice

s.sch003 Capacity of approver

s.sch003 Breach of section 54B

s.sch003 Fire and rescue authority

s.sch004 Form

s.sch004 Independence

s.sch004 Wrong building control authority

s.sch004 Work

s.sch004 Optional requirements

s.sch004 No initial notice

s.sch004 No plans certificate

s.sch004 Capacity of approver

s.sch004 Breach of section 54B

s.sch004 Lack of fire safety information confirmation

s.sch005 Required information

s.sch005 Wrong local authority

s.sch005 No initial notice

s.sch005 Capacity of approver

s.sch005 Breach of section 54B

s.sch005 Earlier notice

s.sch005 Local authority action

s.sch005 Failure to provide information requested

Help complying

Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.

Building compliance for new property owners

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Navigate building control approval, thermal upgrade requirements, and competent person schemes when renovating business premises

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Getting building control approval

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Building (Registered Building Control Approvers ) (England) Regulations 2024

Does it bind you?

Other Acts binding the same actors

What it requires

General

Registered building control approvers

Notices and certificates etc.

Transfer of projects back to local authority

Transfer of projects to another approver

Appeals under Part 2 of the 1984 Act

Registers of notices etc. and registration of approvers

Miscellaneous

Schedules

Help complying

Building compliance for new property owners

Building regulations compliance for renovation