The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

4.  In Form 4 (combined initial notice and plans certificate)—

(1) paragraph 4(c) shall be amended as follows—

(a) after the words “location of the site and”, there shall be inserted the words “(where the work includes the construction of a new drain or private sewer)”;

(b) for paragraph (ii) there shall be substituted—

“(ii) if no connection is to be made to a sewer, as to the proposals for the discharge of the proposed drain or private sewer, including the location of any septic tank and associated secondary treatment system, or any wastewater treatment system or any cesspool.”;

(c) paragraph (iii) shall be omitted.

(2) paragraph 4(d) shall be omitted.

(3) after paragraph 10, the following paragraphs shall be inserted—

“10A.   The approved inspector [is][is not] (10A) obliged to consult the sewerage undertaker by regulation 13A of the 2000 Regulations.

[10B.  I (7) have consulted the sewerage undertaker in accordance with regulation 13A.](9)

[10C.  I (7) undertake to consult the sewerage undertaker before giving a final certificate in accordance with section 51 of the Act in respect of any of the work described above.](9)”

(4) after note 10, the following note shall be inserted—

“(10A) Delete whichever does not apply. If the inspector is obliged to consult the sewerage undertaker, the declarations in paragraphs 10B and 10C must be made.”.