http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/55/section/93Building Act 1984 An Act to consolidate certain enactments concerning building and buildings and related matters.1984-10-31texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-07-06Expert Participation2026-07-01 Part IVGeneral Documents Authentication of documents.931A notice, order, consent, demand or other document that a local authority are authorised or required by or under this Act to give, make or issue may be signed on behalf of the authority—aby the proper officer of the authority or the district surveyor, as respects documents relating to matters within his province, orbby an officer of the authority authorised by them in writing to sign documents of the particular kind or, as the case may be, the particular document.2A document purporting to bear the signature of an officer—aexpressed to hold an office by virtue of which he is under this section empowered to sign such a document, orbexpressed to be authorised by the local authority to sign such a document or the particular document,is deemed, for the purposes of this Act and of any building regulations and orders made under it, to have been duly given, made or issued by authority of the local authority, until the contrary is proved.3In subsection (2) above, “signature” includes a facsimile of a signature by whatever process reproduced.