Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

4 In section 6 (application of building standards regulations and building operations regulations to construction or demolition, and to change of use, of buildings)—

(a) after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(3A) Notwithstanding that a buildings authority are not satisfied that the information submitted to them with an application for a warrant for the construction of a building is sufficient in respect of such stage in the construction as may be prescribed to show that the building when constructed will not fail to conform to the building standards regulations, they may grant a warrant for the construction of the building but subject to the condition that work on such prescribed stage shall not be proceeded with until such further information relating to that stage as they may require is submitted to them and until they have made an amendment to the terms of the warrant authorising such work to proceed:

Provided that they shall, subject to subsection (8) of this section, make such an amendment on application being made therefor in the prescribed manner only if they are satisfied that nothing in the information submitted to them in respect of the prescribed stage shows that that stage when constructed will fail to conform to the building standards regulations.”;

(b) in subsection (10), after the words " any such " there shall be inserted the words " prescribed stage as is mentioned in subsection (3A) of this section and any such ".