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The Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Part 1 INTRODUCTORY

    1. 1.Citation, commencement, extent and application

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. Part 2 BUILDING SAFETY LEVY: GENERAL PROVISION

    1. 3.Building safety levy

    2. 4.Designation of collecting authorities

  4. Part 3 KEY CONCEPTS

    1. 5.“Building control application”

    2. 6.“Major residential development” etc

    3. 7.“Residential building” and “relevant residential building”

    4. 8.“Ordinary residential dwelling”

    5. 9.“Purpose-built student accommodation” etc

    6. 10.“Residential floorspace”

    7. 11.“Communal space for residents”

    8. 12.“Gross internal area”

    9. 13.Exempt person: non-profit registered providers of social housing

    10. 14.Commencement of building work

  5. Part 4 CHARGE TO THE LEVY

    1. 15.Charge to building safety levy

    2. 16.Amount charged

    3. 17.Chargeable accommodation floorspace

    4. 18.Chargeable amount of communal floorspace: general

    5. 19.Chargeable amount of communal floorspace: “relevant percentage”

    6. 20.Applicable area rate

    7. 21.Previously developed sites

  6. Part 5 LIABILITY TO PAY THE LEVY

    1. 22.Liability of named client to pay the levy

    2. 23.“Named client”

    3. 24.Levy due date

  7. Part 6 PROVISION OF LEVY INFORMATION

    1. Chapter 1 Amendment of secondary legislation

      1. 25.Amendment of 2010 Regulations: general

      2. 26.Amendment of 2010 Regulations: requirement in relation to building safety levy information

      3. 27.Amendment of 2010 Regulations: building safety levy information

      4. 28.Amendment of 2010 Regulations: notices etc

      5. 29.Amendment of RBCA Regulations: information to be provided with initial notices etc

      6. 30.Amendment of HRB Regulations: general

      7. 31.Amendment of HRB Regulations: building safety levy information etc

    2. Chapter 2 Applications made to the regulator: provision of information to, and by, the collecting authority

      1. 32.Provision of application information by the regulator

      2. 33.Provision of commencement of building work information by the regulator

      3. 34.Provision of new named client information by the regulator

      4. 35.Provision of confirmation by collecting authority

    3. Chapter 3 Section 30A applications: provision of information by Secretary of State to a collecting authority

      1. 36.Applications under section 30A of the 1984 Act: rejection of higher-risk building application

  8. Part 7 DETERMINATION OF LEVY LIABILITY

    1. 37.Collecting authority: determination of levy liability amount

    2. 38.“Determination period”

    3. 39.“Levy liability notice”

    4. 40.“Notice of no charge”

  9. Part 8 VARIATION OF BUILDING CONTROL APPLICATIONS

    1. Chapter 1 Meaning and effect of variation applications

      1. 41.Variation applications

      2. 42.Effect of a variation application

      3. 43.Cancellation and reinstatement of levy determination notices

    2. Chapter 2 Amendment of secondary legislation

      1. 44.Amendment of RBCA Regulations: information to be provided with amendment notices

      2. 45.Amendment of HRB Regulations: information to be provided with change control applications

  10. Part 9 LEVY INFORMATION SPOT CHECKS AND LEVY UPDATES

    1. Chapter 1 “Levy information spot check”

      1. 46.“Levy information spot check”

    2. Chapter 2 Circumstances in which levy information spot checks are carried out

      1. 47.Requirement to carry out levy information spot checks: Category 1

      2. 48.Requirement to carry out levy information spot checks: Category 2

    3. Chapter 3 Process for carrying out levy information spot checks

      1. 49.Requirement to notify named client of levy information spot check

      2. 50.Further information and notice of outcome

      3. 51.Inaccurate building safety levy information

    4. Chapter 4 Levy update notices

      1. 52.Levy update notices

      2. 53.Procedure and outcome for levy updates

      3. 54.Request for revised levy determination

  11. Part 10 LEVY PAYMENT AND COMPLETION OF WORKS

    1. Chapter 1 Payment of levy

      1. 55.Requirements in relation to levy payment certificates

      2. 56.Content of levy payment certificate

    2. Chapter 2 Amendment of secondary legislation

      1. 57.Amendment of 2010 Regulations: completion notice

      2. 58.Amendment of 2010 Regulations: withholding a completion certificate

      3. 59.Amendment of RBCA Regulations: compliance declarations

      4. 60.Amendment of RBCA Regulations: rejecting final certificate

      5. 61.Amendment of HRB Regulations: completion certificate applications

      6. 62.Amendment of HRB Regulations: rejecting completion certificate applications

    3. Chapter 3 Provision of information in relation to completion applications etc

      1. 63.Provision of information by the named client and by the collecting authority in relation to completion applications

      2. 64.Rejection of applications by the Secretary of State

    4. Chapter 4 Refunds

      1. 65.Refund of levy payments: conditions A to D

      2. 66.Refund of levy payments: conditions E to K

      3. 67.Refunds: levy liability amount, levy liability notices and levy payment certificates

  12. Part 11 PAYMENT OF RECEIPTS TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE

    1. 68.Provision of payment information to the Secretary of State

    2. 69.Payment and deduction of administrative expenses

    3. 70.Reimbursement by the Secretary of State

  13. Part 12 DECISIONS OF COLLECTING AUTHORITY: REVIEWS AND APPEALS

    1. 71.Request for a review

    2. 72.Carrying out a review

    3. 73.Appeal against decision on a review

  14. Part 13 SECRETARY OF STATE REVIEW OF REGULATIONS

    1. 74.Secretary of State review of building safety levy

  15. Signature

  16. Schedules

    1. Schedule 1

      Exempt buildings

      1. 1.Exempt buildings: general

      2. 2.School accommodation

      3. 3.Care homes

      4. 4.Secure residential institutions

      5. 5.Hospitals

      6. 6.Accommodation for victims of domestic abuse

      7. 7.Children’s homes, residential family centres and supported accommodation for children

      8. 8.Temporary accommodation for homeless people

    2. Schedule 2

      Ordinary residential dwellings: exemptions

      1. Part 1 Social housing

        1. 1.“Social housing”: general

        2. 2.Condition 1

        3. 3.Condition 2

        4. 4.Condition 3

        5. 5.Condition 4

        6. 6.Definitions

      2. Part 2 Supported housing

        1. 7.Supported housing

      3. Part 3 Exempt accommodation

        1. 8.(1) “Exempt accommodation” means— (a) school accommodation,

    3. Schedule 3

      Area Rates

    4. Schedule 4

      Named client

      1. 1.Named client in relation to building control applications with full plans or related updated application

      2. 2.Named client in relation to initial notice or related updated application

      3. 3.Named client in relation to higher-risk building application or related updated application

    5. Schedule 5

      RBCA Regulations: substituted forms

  17. Explanatory Note

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