This Statutory Instrument has been made in part in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2022/1388 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2023 No. 229
BUILDING AND BUILDINGS
ARCHITECTS
The Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments and Prescribed Functions) and Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Made
27th February 2023
Laid before Parliament
1st March 2023
Coming into force
1st April 2023
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(5) and 166(1) of the Building Safety Act 2022(1) and paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 to the Architects Act 1997(2).
In respect of the provision at regulation 4, in accordance with section 7(4) of the Building Safety Act 2022 the Secretary of State has consulted the regulator(3) and such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
In respect of the provision at regulation 5, in accordance with paragraph 24(1) of Schedule 1 to the Architects Act 1997 the Secretary of State has consulted the Architects Registration Board and such other persons or bodies as the Secretary of State thinks fit.
Citation, commencement and extentI1
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Building Safety Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments and Prescribed Functions) and Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and come into force on 1st April 2023.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
(3) Regulation 4 extends to England and Wales.
Amendments to the Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (No. 2) Order 2009I2
2.—(1) The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (No. 2) Order 2009(4) is amended as follows.
(2) In article 8 (amendments to section 14 of the Building Act 1984: the Building Regulations Advisory Committee for England) omit paragraphs (2), (3) and (4).
(3) Omit article 9 (transitional provision for members of the predecessor Building Regulations Advisory Committee).
(4) Omit article 10 (amendment to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 to refer to the Building Regulations Advisory Committee for England).
Amendment to the Freedom of Information (Additional Public Authorities) Order 2010I3
3. In Part 2 of the Schedule to the Freedom of Information (Additional Public Authorities) Order 2010(5), omit the entry for the Building Regulations Advisory Committee for England.
Further functions of the regulatorI4
4. For the purposes of section 3(5) of the Building Safety Act 2022, the functions of [F1the Building Safety RegulatorF1] as statutory consultee in relation to the fire safety of higher-risk buildings or proposed higher-risk buildings under, or under any instrument made under—
(a)the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(6), and
(b)section 54 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004(7),
are prescribed as functions of the regulator.
Amendment to the Architects Act 1997I5
5. In Schedule 1 to the Architects Act 1997, omit paragraph 20.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Lee Rowley
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
27th February 2023
See section 2(1) of the Building Safety Act 2022 for the definition of “regulator” for the purposes of Part 2 of that Act.