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Building Act 1984
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10 Advertisement of proposal for relaxation of building regulations.E+W
(1)Not less than 21 days before giving a direction under section 8(1), (2) or (4) above in respect of any particular work, the Secretary of State, the local authority or the public body, as the case may be shall publish in a local newspaper circulating in the area where the site of the work is situated a notice—
(a)indicating the situation and nature of the work and the requirement to be dispensed with or relaxed, and
(b)stating that representations with regard to the effect that the direction may have on public health or safety may be made by a date specified in the notice, being a date not less than 21 days from the date of the notice.
and, where the direction is proposed to be made on an application, the Secretary of State or the local authority may, as a condition of entertaining the application, require the applicant to pay or undertake to pay the cost of publication.
(2)No notice need be published under the subsection (1) above where in appears to the Secretary of State, the local authority or the public body, as the case may be, that any effect that the direction may have on public health or safety will be limited to premises adjoining the site of the work, but in that case he, they or it shall give such a notice to the owner and occupier of those premises.
(3)No notice need be published or given under subsection (1) or (2) above where the work affects only an internal part of a building.
(4)The Secretary of State may, instead of himself publishing or giving a notice under subsection (1) or (2) above, require the local authority to give or publish the notice.
(5)Before giving the direction, the Secretary of State, the local authority or the public body shall consider any representation duly made in pursuance of a notice published or given under subsection (1) or (2) above.
(6)If, after a local authority have received representations under this section, they refuse the application to which the representations relate and an appeal is brought against their refusal the local authority shall transmit to the Secretary of State copies of those representations.
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