The Building Safety Act 2022 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2024

Transitional provisions: higher-risk building work regarded as sufficiently progressed

5.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to any initial notice given before 1st October 2023 in respect of higher-risk building work where—

(a) a notice under paragraph 1(4) (notice that work had sufficiently progressed) of Schedule 3 to the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023(1) in relation to work to that building was received by a local authority before 6th April 2024, and

(b) the approved inspector who gave the initial notice became an approver before 6th April 2024.

(2) Where this regulation applies then with effect from 6th April 2024 for so long as the initial notice continues in force on or after that date—

(a) the initial notice given by the approved inspector is to be treated as if it were given instead by that person in their capacity as an approver, and

(b) the 1984 Act applies in relation to the approver in respect of the work described in that initial notice as if the amendments in section 51 (new initial notices) of the 2022 Act were omitted.

(1)

S.I. 2023/909.