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Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) Order 1979

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Miscellaneous provisions as to the approval of plansN.I.

14.—(1) A district council with whom plans of any proposed work are deposited in accordance with building regulations may in prescribed cases pass them by stages in accordance with the regulations and, where a district council passes any such plans to a limited extent at any stage,—

(a)it shall impose conditions as to the depositing of further plans in connection with the proposed work; and

(b)it may impose conditions for securing that, pending the deposit of such of the further plans as it may indicate, the proposed work will not be proceeded with except to such extent as it may in accordance with the regulations authorise.

(2) A person who contravenes any condition imposed by a district council under paragraph (1) other than a condition as to the depositing of further plans, or permits any such condition to be contravened, shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

(3) A district council with whom plans of any proposed work are deposited in accordance with building regulations may—

(a)notwithstanding that the plans are defective or show that the work would contravene any of the building regulations, pass the plans provisionally, that is to say, subject to any modifications which it thinks necessary for remedying the defect or avoiding the contravention, indicating the modifications in the notice of approval and—

(i)if, within a prescribed time and in a prescribed manner so indicated, the person by or on behalf of whom the plans were deposited notifies the council that he agrees to the modifications, the plans shall be treated as having been passed subject to those modifications;

(ii) if not, the plans shall be treated as having been rejected, and

(b)notwithstanding that the plans are neither defective nor show that the proposed works would contravene any building regulation, approve them provisionally in such circumstances as may be prescribed, such approval being subject to the result of such investigations or other processes as may be prescribed.

(4) In cases where by virtue of paragraph (1) or (3) plans are passed by stages or provisionally, the provisions of Article 13 shall have effect subject to such modifications as may be prescribed.

(5) Where plans of any proposed work have been passed under Article 13 by a district council, the person by or on behalf of whom the plans were in accordance with building regulations deposited with the council may, and in such cases as may be prescribed shall, for the purpose of obtaining the approval of the council to any proposed departure or deviation from the plans as passed, deposit plans of any such departure or deviation; and that Article shall apply in relation to plans deposited under this paragraph as it applies in relation to the plans originally deposited.

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