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Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

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7For section 8 of the 1961 Act (advertisement of proposal to relax building regulations) substitute—

8Opportunity to make representations about proposal to relax building regulations.

(1)Before the Secretary of State or a local authority give a direction under section 6 of this Act the prescribed steps shall be taken for affording to persons likely to be affected by the direction an opportunity to make representations about it; and before giving the direction the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the local authority shall consider any representations duly made in accordance with the regulations.

(2)Building regulations—

(a)may make provision as to the time to be allowed for making representations under the preceding subsection ;

(b)may require an applicant for such a direction, as a condition that his application shall be entertained, to pay or undertake to pay the cost of publishing any notice which is required by the regulations to be published in connection with the application; and

(c)may exclude the requirements of the preceding subsection in prescribed cases..

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