The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2014

Approved inspector’s insurance (new regulation 5A)

3.  After regulation 5, insert—

“Approved inspector’s insurance

5A.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2), an approved inspector who gives a notice or certificate specified in paragraph (2) to a local authority must ensure that, before or on the date of the notice or certificate, the person who approved that inspector (the Welsh Ministers or a body designated under regulation 3 as the case may be) is in possession of a declaration of insurance in respect of the work to which the notice or certificate relates.

(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a notice or certificate given on or after 10 February 2014 which is—

(a) an initial notice;

(b) an amendment notice;

(c) a plans certificate;

(d) a combined initial notice and plans certificate; or

(e) a final certificate.

(3) In this regulation a “declaration of insurance” means a declaration of insurance signed by the insurer that a named scheme of insurance approved by the Welsh Ministers applies to the approved inspector in relation to the building work to which the notice or certificate relates.”