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Building Act 1984

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7Compliance or non-compliance with approved documents

(1)A failure on the part of a person to comply with an approved document does not of itself render him liable to any civil or criminal proceedings ; but if, in any proceedings whether civil or criminal, it is alleged that a person has at any time contravened a provision of building regulations—

(a)a failure to comply with a document that at that time was approved for the purposes of that provision may be relied upon as tending to establish liability, and

(b)proof of compliance with such a document may be relied on as tending to negative liability.

(2)In any proceedings, whether civil or criminal—

(a)a document purporting to be a notice issued as mentioned in section 6(3) above shall be taken to be such a notice unless the contrary is proved, and

(b)a document that appears to the court to be the approved document to which such a notice refers shall be taken to be that approved document unless the contrary is proved.

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