Statutory Instruments
2004 No.1466
BUILDING AND BUILDINGS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Building (Approved Inspectors etc. ) (Amendment) Regulations 2004
Made
28th May 2004
Laid before Parliament
8th June 2004
Coming into force
1st July 2004
The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 1(1), and 47(1) of, and paragraphs 1, 2, 7, 8 and 10 of Schedule 1 to the Building Act 1984( 1 ) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consulting the Buildings Regulations Advisory Committee and such other bodies as appear to him to be representative of the interests concerned in accordance with section 14(3) of the Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 1st July 2004.
Amendment of the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2000
2.Regulation 12A of the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 2000( 2 ) shall be amended as follows—
(a) in regulation 12A (sound insulation testing), at the beginning of paragraph (1) insert “Subject to paragraph (4) below,”;
(b) after regulation 12A (3) insert—
“ (4) Where building work consists of the erection of a dwelling-house or a building containing flats, this regulation does not apply to any part of the building in relation to which the person carrying out the building work notifies the approved inspector prior to commencement of the building work on site that, for the purpose of achieving compliance of the work with paragraph E1 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, he is using one or more design details approved by Robust Details Limited ( 3 ) , provided that—
(a) the notification specifies–
(i) the part or parts of the building in respect of which he is using the design detail;
(ii) the design detail concerned; and
(iii) the unique number issued by Robust Details Limited in respect of the specified use of that design detail; and
(b) the building work carried out in respect of the part or parts of the building identified in the notification is in accordance with the design detail specified in the notification. ” .
Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State
Phil Hope
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
28th May 2004
1984 c. 55 . Section 47 was amended by S.I. 1996/1905 .
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