The Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Rule D: Services and fittings N.I.

The following are the notices to be given and the plans, sections, specifications and written particulars to be deposited by a person intending to provide any services or fittings to which regulation 6 in Part A relates:

(1) Notice of intention to provide any services or fittings in connection with a building.

(2) (a) Particulars of the services or fittings so far as is necessary to establish whether they comply with all such requirements of these regulations as apply to them; and

(b) where it is proposed to provide an unvented hot water storage system to which Part P of these regulations applies, the particulars required by sub-paragraph (a) shall include—

(i) the name, make, model and type of hot water storage system to be installed;

(ii) the name of the body, if any, which has approved or certified that the system is capable of performing in a way which satisfies the requirements of Part P; and

(iii) the name of the body, if any, which has issued any current registered operative identity card to the installer or proposed installer of the system.

(3) Where it is proposed to execute works of drainage or to construct or install a water closet fitting, urinal fitting, cesspool, septic tank or similar structure (for the reception or disposal of foul water from buildings), a block plan. Such plan shall, if the work is in connection with an operation to which Rules B or C relate, be the block plan required by such rule and the block plan shall in any case show, so far as necessary to establish whether the proposals comply with all such requirements of these regulations as apply to them—

(a) the position of services or fittings;

(b) the lines of drainage; the size, depth and inclination of every drain and the means of access to be provided for the inspection and clearance of blockages;

(c) the position and level of the outfall of the drains; and

(d) where the drainage is intended to be connected to a sewer, the position of the sewer.

(4) Where it is proposed to construct or install a water closet fitting, urinal fitting, cesspool, septic tank or similar structure (for the reception or disposal of foul water from buildings), plans and sections of the works or fittings, so far as necessary to show that they comply with all such requirements of these regulations as apply to them.

(5) A key plan showing the position of the site when it is not sufficiently identifiable from the block plan.