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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These Regulations implement articles 3 to 6 of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, OJ No L 1, 4.1.2004 (“the Directive”) by amending the Building Regulations 2000 and the Building (Approved Inspectors etc) Regulations 2000. They also make other amendments to those Regulations.
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Last updated:
9 March 2016
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These Regulations amend the Building Regulations 2000 and the Building (Approved Inspectors) Regulations 2000.
Published by: Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament
Last updated:
9 March 2016
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2532 amended by S.I. 2001/3336) are principally concerned with the inspection of plans and of building work by approved inspectors in place of local authorities (as provided for in the Building Act 1984). These Regulations amend the 2000 Regulations in consequence of the amendments made to the Building Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2531 amended by S.I. 2001/3335 and 2002/440) by the Building (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2871) and in particular the substitution of Part E of Schedule 1 (resistance to the passage of sound).
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Last updated:
9 March 2016
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These Regulations revoke and replace the Building (Prescribed Fees etc.) Regulations 1985 and the Regulations amending them. They change the structure of the fees in some respects and increase the existing fees.
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9 March 2016
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Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
These Regulations amend the Planning (Listed Buildings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (“the Listed Buildings Regulations 2015”) as a consequence of the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016. These Regulations take account of the restructuring of Government Departments and reflect the consequent revised roles and responsibilities of planning authorities and statutory consultees in the listed building process of the planning system.
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Last updated:
7 March 2016
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These regulations bring into force the provisions of the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 (c.17) that are not yet in force on 1st April 2016. Section 6 of the Act commenced on Royal Assent. The remaining provisions are sections 1 to 5 of, and the Schedule to, the Act. The Act places duties on certain public authorities to keep a register of individuals and associations of individuals who are seeking to acquire serviced plots of land in the authority’s area in order to bring forward self-build and custom housebuilding projects, and to have regard to that register in carrying out their planning and other functions. The Schedule to the Act enables the making of Regulations that make provision in relation to registers.
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Last updated:
4 February 2016
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Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
These Regulations amend the Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (the principal Regulations). They do not apply to building work which has been completed, or for which plans or building notices have been deposited with a district council before the coming into operation of these Regulations.
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Last updated:
15 January 2016
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These Regulations implement in England and Wales articles 7 (energy performance certificates), 9 (air-conditioning system inspections) and 10 (energy assessors) of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, OJ No L 1, 4.1.2004 (“the Directive”) which lays down requirements for the production of energy performance certificates when buildings are constructed, sold or rented out, display of certificates in large public buildings, and regular inspections of air-conditioning systems.
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27 June 2014
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These Regulations amend the Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007, which implement Articles 7 (energy performance certificate), and 10 (independent experts) of Directive 2002/91/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16th December 2002 on the Energy Performance of Buildings (OJ No. L 1 4.1.2003 p.65) (“the Directive”). The amendments concern various provisions related to energy performance certificates and related documents—regulation 2(2) amends regulation 11(4) to extend from twelve months to 3 years the validity of energy performance certificates to be included in a home information pack under Part 5 of the Housing Act 2004, and regulation 5 makes the corresponding consequential amendment to regulation 15(2) of the Home Information Pack (No. 2) Regulations 2007;regulation 2(3) amends regulation 14(2) to allow the disclosure by any person in possession or control of an energy performance certificate or accompanying document or data—by or to an energy assessor for the purpose of assessment of a dwelling,by or to the Energy Saving Trust Limited of the address and energy performance rating only of a dwelling for the purpose of providing information to the occupier on financial support available for improving its energy performance or, on an anonymised basis, for statistical or research purposes, andby or to an approved inspector for the purpose of functions under Part 2 of the Building Act 1984;regulation 2(4) corrects a minor drafting error in regulation 17(1)(e)(iii);regulation 2(5) amends the description in regulation 31(2) of the data that is required to be entered by an energy assessor on any register of energy performance certificates and related documents kept pursuant to that regulation;regulation 2(6) inserts a new regulation 34A that allows the keeper of the register to disclose to any person whether an energy performance certificate is registered for a specified building other than a dwelling and when any such certificate was issued;regulation 2(7) inserts new regulations 35A and 35B that allow the keeper of the register—to disclose to an energy assessor any document or data entered on the register concerning a dwelling for the purpose of assessment of the dwelling concerned or for any other purpose on behalf of its owner or tenant (regulation 35A), andto disclose to the Energy Saving Trust Limited the address of any dwelling in respect of which an energy performance certificate in a performance category specified by that company has been entered on the register, for the purpose of providing information to the occupier on financial support available for improving its energy performance, or for use on an anonymised basis for statistical or research purposes (regulation 35B);regulation 2(8) inserts a new regulation 36A that allows the keeper of the register to disclose any document or data to an approved inspector in connection with functions under Part 2 of the Building Act 1984 in relation to the building concerned; andregulation 2(9) extends the transitional arrangements in regulation 51 for property on the market at commencement for a period ending on 4th January 2009 in relation to non-dwellings.
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Last updated:
12 June 2014
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United Kingdom Statutory Instrument
These Regulations further amend the Building (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1981. The principal changes are as follows:the updating of references to the building standards regulations to take account of the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1990 (SI 1990/2179) and their supporting volume, the Technical Standards (ISBN 0-11-494105-X), and consequential amendments (regulations 3, 6, 7, 14, 15(a) and (b));an amendment to clarify that extensions to warrants may only be granted during the life of the warrant (regulation 4);an amendment concerning the 14 days allowed to local authorities to consider an application for a certificate of completion to clarify that this period starts from the date on which the local authority receive the application (regulation 5);an amendment to allow local authorities to grant a relaxation of the building standards regulations as soon as all parties concerned have indicated they are content with the draft direction (regulation 8);an amendment giving local authorities discretion as to the form in which plans are retained for record purposes (regulation 13);amendment to Schedule 1 to the principal Regulationsto require more information with applications for demolition warrants;to allow local authorities more discretion concerning the acceptance of simpler plans; andto oblige local authorities to accept plans drawn on polyester film (regulation 15(d), (f) and (g)).
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Last updated:
5 January 2016