The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2000 No. 2532

Regulation 17(1)

SCHEDULE 5 GROUNDS FOR REJECTING A FINAL CERTIFICATE

Deficiencies in form and information

Form

1.  The certificate is not in the prescribed form.

Work

2.  The certificate does not describe the work to which it relates.

Absence of power to give certificate

No initial notice

3.  No initial notice was in force with respect to the work described in the certificate at the time the certificate was given.

Capacity of approved inspector

4.  An initial notice was in force with respect to the work described in the certificate at the time the certificate was given, but—

(a) the certificate is not signed by the approved inspector who gave that notice, or

(b) that person is no longer an approved inspector.

Lack of declarations

Insurance

5.  The certificate is not accompanied by a declaration signed by the insurer that a named scheme of insurance approved by the Secretary of State applies in relation to the work to which the certificate relates.

Independence

6.  Except where the work to which it relates is stated in the certificate to be minor work within the meaning of regulation 10(1), the certificate does not contain a declaration by the approved inspector that he has not since giving that notice had any professional or financial interest in that work.