The Deregulation (Building) (Initial Notices and Final Certificates) Order 1996

Final Certificates

4.  For subsection (1) of section 51 of the 1984 Act, there shall be substituted the following subsection—

(1) Where an approved inspector is satisfied that any work to which an initial notice given by him relates has been completed, he shall give to the local authority by whom the initial notice was accepted such certificate with respect to the completion of the work and the discharge of his functions as may be prescribed (called a “final certificate”).