The Building (Inner London) Regulations 1987

Regulation 3(2)

SCHEDULE 3 MODIFICATION OF ENACTMENTS

1.  The London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939(1) shall have effect—

(a) in section 4, in the definition of “domestic building”, with the omission of the words from “and for the purposes of Part V” to the end of that definition;

(b) in section 21, with the substitution for subsections (4A) and (4B)(2) of the following:—

“(4A) Subsection (4) of this section shall not apply if:

(a) the width of any opening in any wall of a storey (or if there is more than one opening in any such wall, the width of all such openings taken together) does not exceed one-half of the length of the wall, and

(b) each opening is closed by two steel plate doors, metal covered doors or steel rolling shutters, one on each side of the wall, and

(c) those doors or shutters are—

(i) constructed in accordance with specification 1 or 2 or 3 or 4, and

(ii) installed in accordance with the general installation requirements of the Rules for the Construction and Installation of Firebreak Doors and Shutters of the Fire Offices' Committee, dated February 1985.”

(c) in section 34(1), with the insertion, after proviso (ii)(B), of the following—

“or (C) a building to which section 4(1)(a) of the Building Act 1984 applies.”;

(d) in section 35(1), with the insertion, before paragraph (iii) of the proviso, of the following paragraph—

“(ii) the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any building to which section 4(1)(a) of the Building Act 1984 applies; and”

(e) in section 145, with the omission of subsection (4)(3)

2.  The London Government Act 1963(4) shall have effect with the insertion at the end of paragraph 18 of Part III of Schedule 9 of the following sub-paragraph—

“(3) Nothing in this paragraph applies to the erection of a building or extension of a building if section 18 of the Building Act 1984 would apply if plans of that building or extension were, in accordance with building regulations, deposited with a local authority.”.

3.  The Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1969(5) shall have effect, in section 26 (Building control)—

(a) with the omission of “and any byelaws made thereunder” from subsection (1); and

(b) with the substitution of “the Building Regulations 1985” for “any such byelaws as aforesaid” in subsection (2)(b).

4.  The City of London (Various Powers) Act 1973(6) shall have effect, in section 7 (Sanitation byelaws: dispensation and increase of penalties) with the substitution of the following for subsection (8)—

“(8) This section applies to byelaws in force from time to time made by the Corporation under section 5 (Byelaws as to pipes conveying acids) of the City of London (Various Powers) Act 1926.”.

5.  The Building Act 1984 shall have effect, in section 18—

(a) with the substitution, in subsection (2), of “a local authority” for the words from “the council” to “1939”;

(b) with the substitution, in subsection (3), of “local authority” for “council of a district or outer London borough” and of “authority” for “council”; and

(c) with the insertion, after subsection (5), of the following subsection—

“(6) This section does not apply to the Inner Temple or the Middle Temple.”.

(1)

1939 c.xcvii.

(2)

Inserted by the Building (Inner London) Regulations 1985 (S.I. 1985/1936).

(3)

Inserted by the Building (Inner London) Regulations 1985 (S.I. 1985/1936).

(4)

1963 c. 33.

(5)

1969 c.lii.

(6)

1973 c.xx.