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1987 No. 798
BUILDING AND BUILDINGS
The Building (Inner London) Regulations 1987
Made 5th May 1987
Laid before Parliament 11th May 1987
Coming into force 1st July 1987
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the provisions of the Building Act 19841specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consulting the Building Regulations Advisory Committee, any local authority who appear to him to be concerned and such other bodies as appear to him to be representative of the interests concerned in accordance with section 14(3) of and paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Building (Inner London) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st July 1987.
Further application of building regulations and the Building Act 1984 to inner London
2.—(1) The Building Regulations 19852and the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 19853shall be amended as provided in Part I of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, being amendments to apply further provisions of those Regulations to inner London.
(2) The following provisions of the Building Act 1984 apply in relation to a local authority in inner London as they apply to a local authority outside inner London—
section 18 (building over sewer etc.);
section 21 (provision of drainage);
section 22 (drainage of buildings in combination);
section 23 (provision of facilities for refuse).
(3) Paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Building Act 1984 shall have effect with the insertion after “71” of “, 72(1) to (4), (6) and (7), 73”.
Consequential modifications and repeals
3.—(1) The Building (Prescribed Fees etc.) Regulations 19854and the Building (Inner London) Regulations 19855shall be amended as provided in Part II of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
(2) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 3 shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in that Schedule.
(3) The enactments and instruments mentioned in Schedule 4 are repealed or revoked to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
Transitional Provisions
4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, these Regulations do not apply to any building, structure or work if on 1st July 1987 the Building (Inner London) Regulations 1985 do not apply to that building, structure or work, or if, before that date—
(a)
(a) a contract was entered into for the erection of the building, construction of the structure or execution of the work; or
(b)
(b) the erection of the building, construction of the structure or execution of the work was commenced; or
(c)
(c) plans were deposited or notice was given in respect of the building, structure or work under any of the enactments and instruments which would be repealed or revoked if these Regulations applied; or
(d)
(d) in respect of the building, structure or work, a building notice was given or full plans were deposited under regulation 11 of the Building Regulations 1985 or an initial notice or a public body’s notice was given,
until that building, structure or work has been completed.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) above, these Regulations shall apply to any building, structure or work if, on or after 1st July 1987—
(a)
(a) in respect of that building, structure or work, a building notice is given or full plans are deposited under regulation 11 of the Building Regulations 1985 or an initial notice or a public body’s notice is given, and
(b)
(b) those plans or that notice includes work in respect of which any of the enactments or instruments repealed or revoked by these Regulations requires the deposit of plans or the giving of notice; and
(c)
(c) at the time that those plans are deposited or that notice is given the building work to which those plans or that notice relate has not been commenced.
SCHEDULE 1
Preamble
ENABLING POWERS
Sections 1(1), 3, 8(2), 16(9) and (10), 17(1) and (6), 35, 47(1) to (5), 49(1) and (5), 50(1), (3), (4), (6) and (7), 51(1) and (2), 52(1), (2), (3) and (5), 53(2) and (4), 54(1) to (3) and (5) and 56(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10 and 11 of Schedule 1, paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 3 and paragraphs 1, 2(1), (2), (4) and (5), 3(1) and (2), 4(2) and (4), and 5 of Schedule 4 to, the Building Act 19846.
SCHEDULE 2
Regulations 2(1) and 3(1)
AMENDMENTS TO BUILDING REGULATIONS
PART I
1. The Building Regulations 19857shall be amended as follows—
(a) in regulation 12(2)(c)(i) omit the words “if Part H (drainage and waste disposal) of Schedule 1 applies,”,
(b) in regulation 14—
(i) in paragraph (1) omit the words “Subject to paragraph (1A),”; and
(ii) omit paragraph (1A),
(c) in regulation 15 for the words “A local authority outside inner London” substitute the words “The local authority”,
(d) in Schedule 1 (Requirements) in the third column (Limits on application)—
(i) omit the words “This requirement does not apply in inner London.” opposite paragraph G4 (sanitary conveniences); and
(ii) omit the words “The requirements of this Part do not apply in inner London.” in Part H (drainage and waste disposal).
2. The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 19858shall be amended as follows—
in regulation 10—
(i) for the words “paragraphs (1A) and” substitute the word “paragraph”; and
(ii) omit paragraph (1A).
PART II
3. The Building (Prescribed Fees etc.) Regulations 19859shall be amended as follows:—
(a) in regulation 5 omit the words “Subject to regulation 6A” in the three places where they occur;
(b) in regulation 6 omit the words “Subject to regulation 6A”; and
(c) omit regulation 6A.
4. Schedule 2 to the Building (Inner London) Regulations 198510shall be amended by the omission of paragraphs 1(2), (3), (4), and (6), 2(2) and 3(2), (3) and (4).
SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 3(2)
MODIFICATION OF ENACTMENTS
1. The London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 193911shall have effect—
(a) in section 4, in the definition of “domestic building”, with the omission of the words from “and for the purposes of Part V” to the end of that definition;
(b) in section 21, with the substitution for subsections (4A) and (4B)12of the following:—
“4A Subsection (4) of this section shall not apply if:
(a) the width of any opening in any wall of a storey (or if there is more than one opening in any such wall, the width of all such openings taken together) does not exceed one-half of the length of the wall, and
(b) each opening is closed by two steel plate doors, metal covered doors or steel rolling shutters, one on each side of the wall, and
(c) those doors or shutters are—
(i) constructed in accordance with specification 1 or 2 or 3 or 4, and
(ii) installed in accordance with the general installation requirements of the Rules for the Construction and Installation of Firebreak Doors and Shutters of the Fire Offices' Committee, dated February 1985.”
(c) in section 34(1), with the insertion, after proviso (ii)(B), of the following—
“or (C) a building to which section 4(1)(a) of the Building Act 1984 applies.”;
(d) in section 35(1), with the insertion, before paragraph (iii) of the proviso, of the following paragraph—
“(ii)
“(ii) the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any building to which section 4(1)(a) of the Building Act 1984 applies; and”
(e) in section 145, with the omission of subsection (4)13
2. The London Government Act 196314shall have effect with the insertion at the end of paragraph 18 of Part III of Schedule 9 of the following sub-paragraph—
“3 Nothing in this paragraph applies to the erection of a building or extension of a building if section 18 of the Building Act 1984 would apply if plans of that building or extension were, in accordance with building regulations, deposited with a local authority.”.
3. The Greater London Council (General...
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