Building (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2005 No. 295

BUILDING REGULATIONS

Building (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made

13th June 2005

Coming into operation

3rd October 2005

The Department of Finance and Personnel, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 3 and 5(1) of, and paragraphs 4 and 22 of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) Order 1979(1) and now vested in it(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, after consultation with the Building Regulations Advisory Committee and such other bodies as appear to the Department to be representative of the interests concerned, hereby makes the following regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Building (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 3rd October 2005.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(3).

Transitional provisions

3.—(1) The principal Regulations shall continue to apply to –

(a) plans deposited or a building notice given in accordance with the principal Regulations before the commencement of these Regulations;

(b) building work carried out in accordance with such plans or such a building notice with or without any departure or deviation therefrom; and

(c) building work completed before the commencement of these Regulations, as if the amendments effected by these Regulations had not been made.

(2) In paragraph (1) –

(a) “building notice” means a notice given under regulation A10(1) of the principal Regulations; and

(b) “building work” has the same meaning as in those Regulations.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

4.—(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation A2 (Interpretation) after the definition “SAP ENERGY RATING” there shall be inserted the following definition –

• “SCHOOL has the same meaning as in the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;”

(3) In paragraph (2) of regulation E1 (Application and interpretation), in the definition of internal linings, after the word “materials” there shall be inserted the words “or products”.

(4) In paragraph (b) of regulation E3 (Internal fire spread – Linings) after the word “release” there shall be inserted the words “or a low rate of fire growth”.

(5) For Table E of Schedule 5 there shall be substituted the Table set out in the Schedule.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 13th June 2005.

L.S.

B. Stuart

Assistant Secretary

Regulation 4(5)

SCHEDULE

“Table E

(Fire safety)

Regulations	Buildings	Publications	Amendments
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Note –
# Other than spectator accommodation at sports grounds.”
E2 Means of escape	a dwellinghouse	DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: Sections 1 and 6	–
	a flat or maisonette	BS 5588-1: 1990; and	AMD 7840
			AMD 14988
		DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: Paragraphs 1.34 and 1.35 and Section 6	–
	a hospital or residential health care building	Northern Ireland Firecode	March 2005
	a house in multiple occupation	Section 5 of DOE Circular 12/92 published by Department of the Environment: 1992	–
	a hotel or boarding house	Chapters 13 and 14 of the Guide to Fire Precautions in Premises Used as Hotels and Boarding Houses Which Require a Fire Certificate published by Home Office: 1991; and BS 5588-8: 1999	–
			AMD 14992
	an office	(a) DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999; or	AMD 14992
		(b) BS 5588-11: 1997; and	AMD 9838
			AMD 10213
			AMD 14995
		BS 5588-8: 1999	AMD 14992
	a shop	(a) DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999; or	AMD 14992
		(b) BS 5588-11: 1997; and	AMD 9838
			AMD 10213
			AMD 14995
		BS 5588-8: 1999	AMD 14992
	a shopping complex	BS 5588-10: 1991; and	AMD 14994
		BS 5588-8: 1999	AMD 14992
	an assembly building#	(a) DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999; or	AMD 14992
		(b) BS 5588-6: 1991; and	AMD 10212
			AMD 10443
			AMD 14990
		BS 5588-8: 1999	AMD 14992
E2 Means of escape (cont'd)	an educational building other than a school	(a) DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999; or	AMD 14992
		(b) BS 5588-6: 1991: and	AMD 10212
			AMD 10443
			AMD 14990
		BS 5588-8: 1999	AMD 14992
	a school	DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999	AMD 14992
	spectator accommodation at a sports ground	Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds published for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport: 1997; and BS 5588-8: 1999	–
			AMD 14992
	any other non-residential building	DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999	AMD 14992
E3 Internal fire spread – Linings	any building	DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 2 and 6
E4 Internal fire spread – Structure	a shopping complex	BS 5588-10: 1991:	AMD 14994
		Sections 5 and 6
	any other building	DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 3 and 6
E5 External fire spread	any building	DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 4 and 6
E6 Facilities and access for the Fire Brigade	any building	DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005:	–
		Sections 5 and 6

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (the principal Regulations). They come into operation on 3rd October 2005. 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 that date.

Part E of the principal Regulations is amended to expand the definition of internal linings to include products (Regulation 4(3)) and to extend the requirements relating to internal linings to include low rate of fire growth (Regulation 4(4)). These changes give recognition to testing to European standards. A new Table is substituted for Table E of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations so that updated deemed-to-satisfy references are inserted (Regulation 4(5)).

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared. Copies can be obtained from the Building Regulations Unit, Department of Finance and Personnel, River House, 48 High Street, Belfast BT1 2AW.

These Regulations were notified in draft to the European Commission in accordance with Directive 98/34/EC, as amended by Directive 98/48/EC.

(1)

S.I. 1979/1709 (N.I. 16); Article 5(1) was amended by S.I. 1990/1510 (N.I. 14), Article 38(1) and Sch. 1, Part II

(2)

See S.R. 1999 No. 481 Art. 6 and Sch. 4, Part II

(3)

S.R. 2000 No. 389