1. These Regulations may be cited as the Building (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 3rd October 2005.
2. In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(1).
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.
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