Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. I (ss. 1-46) restricted by Channel Tunnel Act 1987 (c. 53, SIF 102), ss. 31(1), 45, Sch. 7 Pt. VI para. 2
C2Pt. I (ss. 1-46) modified (1.4.1991) by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 60(2), Sch. 8 para. 18(1)
C3Pt. I (ss. 1-46) modified (17.7.1992) by S.I. 1992/1732, art. 4(1)
C4Pt. I (ss. 1-46) excluded (18. 12. 1996) by 1996 c. 61, s. 38, Sch. 10 para.7PPt. I (ss. 1-46) excluded (26.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/1149, art. 4(5) (subject to art. 1(3))
(1)This section has effect with a view to enabling the Secretary of State, either on an application made to him or of his own accord, to approve a particular type of building matter as complying, either generally or in a class of case, with particular requirements of building regulations.
(2)An application for the approval under subsection (1) above of a type of building matter shall comply with any requirements of building regulations as to the form of such applications and the particulars to be included in them.
(3)Where under subsection (1) above the Secretary of State approves a type of building matter as complying with particular requirements of building regulations either generally or in a class of case, he may issue a certificate to that effect specifying—
(a)the type of building matter to which the certificate relates,
(b)the requirements of building regulations to which the certificate relates, and
(c)where applicable, the class or classes of case to which the certificate applies.
(4)A certificate under subsection (3) above, if it so provides, ceases to have effect at the end of such period as may be specified in the certificate.
(5)If, while a certificate under subsection (3) above is in force, it is found, in a particular case involving building matter of the type to which the certificate relates, that—
(a)the building matter in question is of that type, and
(b)the case is one to which the certificate applies,
that building matter shall in that particular case be deemed to comply with the requirements of building regulations to which the certificate relates.
(6)The Secretary of State may vary a certificate under subsection (3) above, either on an application made to him or of his own accord; but, in the case of a certificate issued on an application made by a person Under subsection (1) above, the Secretary of State, except where he varies it on the application of that person, shall before varying it give that person reasonable notice that he proposes to do so.
(7)Building regulations may require a person making an application under subsection (1) or (6) above to pay the Secretary of State the prescribed fee, and—
(a)without prejudice to paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to this Act, regulations made by virtue of this subsection may prescribe different fees for different cases, and
(b)the Secretary of State may in a particular case remit the whole or part of a fee payable by virtue of this subsection.
(8)The Secretary of State may revoke a certificate issued under subsection (3) above, but, before doing so in the case of a certificate issued on an application under subsection (1) above, he shall give the person on whose application the certificate was issued reasonable notice that he proposes to do so.
(9)Where the Secretary of State issues a certificate under subsection (3) above or varies or revokes a certificate so issued, he shall publish notice of that fact in such manner as he thinks fit
(10)If at any time a certificate under subsection (3) above ceases to have effect by virtue of subsection (4) above, or is varied or revoked under subsection (6) or (8) above, that fact does not affect the continued operation of subsection (5) above by virtue of that certificate in a case in which before that time—
(a)plans of the proposed work were, in accordance with building regulations, deposited with a local authority, or
(b)a building notice was served on the district surveyor in pursuance of section 83 of the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939.
(11)For the purposes of subsection (3) above, or of any variation of a certificate under subsection (6) above, a class of case may be framed in any way that the Secretary of State thinks fit.
(12)In this section, " building matter " has the same meaning as in section 11 above.
Commencement Information
I1S. 12 in force at 1.12.1984 for specified purposes, see s. 134(1)(a)