Building Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 1994
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1994/1850 |
| Year | 1994 |
1994 No. 1850
BUILDING AND BUILDINGS
The Building Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 1994
Made 12th July 1994
Laid before Parliament 15th July 1994
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1), 3(1) and 1261of, and paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 7, 8 and 10 of Schedule 1 to, the Building Act 19842and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consulting the Building Regulations Advisory Committee and such other bodies as appear to him to be representative of the interests concerned in accordance with section 14(3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and Commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Building Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and except for the provisions mentioned in paragraph (2) shall come into force on 1st September 1994.
(2) Paragraph (3) of regulation 2 shall come into force on 1st October 1994, and paragraphs (2)(a), (4) and (5)(b) and (c) of that regulation shall come into force on 1st July 1995.
Amendment of the Building Regulations 1991
2.—(1) The Building Regulations 19913shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.
(2) In regulation 6 (requirements relating to material change of use)—
(a)
(a) there shall be added to sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) the following—
“L1 (conservation of fuel and power)”:
(b)
(b) in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1), for “A4” there shall be substituted “A3”.
(3) After regulation 13 there shall be inserted the following—
“Unauthorised building work
13A.—(1) This regulation applies where it appears to a local authority that—
(a)
(a) work (in this regulation referred to as “the unauthorised work”) has been commenced on or after 11th November 1985, and
(b)
(b) the person who carried out the unauthorised work was, at the time it was carried out, required by building regulations to deposit plans with the authority, to give a building notice or to give an initial notice jointly with an approved inspector in respect of the work, and
(c)
(c) that person did not deposit plans or give any such notice.
(2) Where this regulation applies, the owner (in this regulation referred to as “the applicant”) may apply in writing to the local authority for a regularisation certificate in accordance with this regulation, and shall send with his application—
(a)
(a) a statement that the application is made in accordance with this regulation,
(b)
(b) a description of the unauthorised work,
(c)
(c) so far as is reasonably practicable, a plan of the unauthorised work, and
(d)
(d) so far as is reasonably practicable, a plan showing any additional work required to be carried out to secure that the unauthorised work complies with the requirements relating to building work in the building regulations which were applicable to that work when it was carried out (in this regulation referred to as “the relevant requirements”).
(3) Where a local authority receive an application in accordance with this regulation, they may require the applicant to take such reasonable steps, including laying open the unauthorised work for inspection by the authority, making tests and taking samples, as the authority think appropriate to ascertain what work, if any, is required to secure that the relevant requirements are met.
(4) Having taken such steps as are described in paragraph (3), and having had regard to any direction given in accordance with sections 8 and 9 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Act dispensing with or relaxing a requirement in building regulations which applies to the unauthorised work, the local authority shall notify the applicant—
(a)
(a) of the work...
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