The Building (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2004

Transitional provisions

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where before 1st January 2005 building work is commenced in accordance with—

(a) a building notice given to, or full plans deposited with, a local authority under regulation 12(2) of the principal Regulations and a notice given to the local authority under regulation 15(1) of the principal Regulations; or

(b) an initial notice or an amendment notice given in accordance with section 47(1) or 51A(2), respectively, of the Building Act 1984 (“the Act”),

the principal Regulations shall continue to apply to that building work as if the amendments made by regulation 2(2) to (6) and (9) had not been made.

(2) Where an initial notice given before 1st January 2005 is varied by an amendment notice given on or after that date, the principal Regulations shall continue to apply as if the amendments made by regulation 2(2) to (6) and (9) had not been made, to so much of the building work as could have been carried out under that initial notice if the amendment notice had not been given.

(3) Where before 1st January 2005 full plans of building work are deposited with a local authority in accordance with regulation 12(2) of the principal Regulations and the local authority, before that date—

(a) gives notice under section 16(6) of the Act that they have passed those plans without conditions; or

(b) signifies in writing to the person by whom or on whose behalf the plans were deposited that any condition subject to which they passed the plans has been fully met,

the principal Regulations shall continue to apply to that building work as if the amendments made by regulation 2(2) to (6) and (9) had not been made, whether or not the building work departs from those plans.

(4) Where plans of work are the subject of a plans certificate, or a plans certificate combined with an initial notice, given to a local authority before 1st January 2005 in accordance with section 50 of the Act, and accepted by the local authority either before, on or after that date, the principal Regulations shall continue to apply to that building work as if the amendments made by regulations 2(2) to (6) and (9) had not been made, whether or not the building work departs from those plans.

(5) In relation to building work of a description within the first 3 heads of column 1 of Schedule 2A (installation of a heat-producing gas appliance, of an oil-fired combustion appliance or oil storage tanks and pipes, or of a solid fuel burning combustion appliance) where the contract for the provision of the work is entered into before 1st April 2005 and the work is completed before 1st July 2005, the principal Regulations shall continue to apply to that building work as if the amendments made by regulation 2(8) had not been made.

(6) In relation to building work of a description added to Schedule 2A by regulation 2(10) (installation of fixed low or extra-low voltage electrical installations in dwellings) where the contract for the work is entered into before 1st January 2005 and the work is completed before 1st April 2005, the principal Regulations shall continue to apply to that building work as if the amendments made by regulation 2(8) had not been made.