The Building Regulations &c. (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2013

Title, application and commencement

1.—(1) The title of these regulations is the Building Regulations &c. (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2013.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations apply in relation to Wales but do not apply in relation to excepted energy buildings in Wales.

(3) These Regulations do not apply in relation to—

(a) educational buildings and buildings of statutory undertakers in Wales;

(b) Crown buildings in Wales; and

(c) building work carried out or proposed to be carried out by Crown authorities in Wales.

(4) Each provision of these Regulations mentioned in the second column of the Table in the Schedule to these Regulations comes into force on the date mentioned in the first column of that Table, for the purpose mentioned in the third column.

(5) In this regulation—

“excepted energy building” (“adeilad ynni a eithrir”) has the same meaning as in the Schedule to the Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (No. 2) Order 2009(1);

“Crown authority” (“awdurdod y Goron”) means the Crown Estate Commissioners, a Minister of the Crown, a government department, any other person or body whose functions are performed on behalf of the Crown (not being a person or body whose functions are performed on behalf of Her Majesty in her private capacity), or a person acting in right of the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duchy of Cornwall;

“Crown building” (“adeilad y Goron”) means a building in which there is a Crown interest or Duchy interest;

“Crown interest” (“buddiant y Goron”) means an interest belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown, or belonging to a government department, or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department;

“Duchy interest” (“buddiant y Ddugiaeth”) means an interest belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Duchy of Lancaster, or belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall; and

“educational buildings and buildings of statutory undertakers” (“adeiladau addysgol ac adeiladau ymgymerwyr statudol”) means buildings that fall within section 4(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Building Act 1984.

(1)

S.I. 2009/3019. The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (No. 2) Order 2009 transferred certain functions conferred on the Secretary of State by the Building Act 1984, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the Welsh Ministers. Article 3(a) of the Order provided that functions were not transferred so far as they were exercisable in relation to an excepted energy building as defined in the Schedule to the Order.