Part 1Building regulations

Guidance documents

I15Compliance with guidance documents

1

Failure to comply with a guidance document does not render a person liable to civil or criminal proceedings.

2

But proof of compliance with such a document may be relied on in any proceedings (whether civil or criminal) as tending to negative liability for an alleged contravention of building regulations.

3

In any proceedings (whether civil or criminal)—

a

a document purporting to be a notice issued under section 4(2) or (4) is to be taken to be such a notice unless the contrary is proved,

b

a document which appears to the court to be the guidance document to which such a notice refers is to be taken to be that guidance document unless the contrary is proved.