The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) Regulations 2006

PART 1Introductory

1Citation and commencement

PART 2Amendment of the Building Regulations 2000

2Amendment of the Building Regulations 2000

3Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation)

4Amendment of regulation 3 (meaning of building work)

5Amendment of regulation 4 (requirements relating to building work)

6New regulations 4A (requirements relating to thermal elements) and 4B (requirements where exemption from energy efficiency requirements ceases)

7Amendment of regulation 6 (requirements relating to material change of use)

8Amendment of regulation 9 (exempt buildings and work)

9Amendment of regulation 11 (power to dispense with or relax requirements)

10Amendment of regulation 12 (giving of a building notice or deposit of plans)

11Amendment of regulation 13 (particulars and plans where a building notice is given)

12Amendment of regulation 14 (full plans)

13Amendment of regulation 15 (notice of commencement and completion of certain stages of work)

14Amendment of regulation 16A (provisions applicable to self certification schemes)

15New Part VA (energy performance of buildings)

16Amendment of regulation 20 (supervision of building work otherwise than by local authorities)

17New regulations 20B, 20C and 20D (pressure testing, commissioning and CO₂ emission rate calculations)

18Amendment of regulation 22 (contravention of certain regulations not to be an offence)

19Substitution of Part L (conservation of fuel and power)

20Amendment of Part P (electrical safety)

21Substitution of Schedule 2A (self-certification schemes and exemptions from requirement to give building notice or deposit full plans)

22Amendment of Schedule 2B (descriptions of work where no building notice or deposit of full plans required)

PART 3Amendment of the Building (Approved Inspectors etc) Regulations 2000

23Amendment of the Approved Inspector Regulations

24Amendment of regulation 11 (functions of approved inspectors)

25New regulation 11A (provisions applicable to self-certification schemes for building work)

26New regulations 12B, 12C and 12D (pressure testing, commissioning and CO₂ emission rate calculations)

27Amendment of regulation 31 (contravention of certain regulations not to be an offence)

PART 4Application to educational buildings and statutory undertakers

28Application to education buildings and buildings of statutory undertakers

PART 5Transitional provisions

29Transitional provisions – interpretation and application

30Transitional provisions – work already commenced

31Transitional provisions – work for which full plans not required

32Transitional provisions – full plans

33Transitional provisions – plans certificates

34Transitional provisions – buildings previously exempt

SCHEDULESchedule 2A to the Building Regulations 2000 substituted by these Regulations

2006 No. 652

BUILDING AND BUILDINGS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Made9th March 2006

Laid before Parliament15th March 2006

Coming into force in accordance with regulation

The First Secretary of State is a Minister designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to measures relating to the energy performance of buildings.

In accordance with section 14(3) of the Building Act 19843 he has consulted the Building Regulations Advisory Committee and such other bodies as appeared to him to be representative of the interests concerned.

The First Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and by sections 1(1), 2A, 3(1), 8(6), 35 and 47 of, and paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 4A, 7, 8 and 10 of Schedule 1 to, the Building Act 19844.