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Building Act 1984

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91ZD Higher-risk buildings in Wales: local authority work

(1) Building regulations may make provision about cases where a local authority for an area in Wales (“the relevant local authority”) proposes to carry out higher-risk building work in that area. (2) The regulations may in particular— (a) restrict (or prevent) the exercise by the relevant local authority of prescribed functions in relation to the higher-risk building work; (b) require the relevant local authority to notify the Welsh Ministers of prescribed matters; (c) confer on the Welsh Ministers a power to designate another local authority as the building control authority in relation to the higher-risk building work (instead of the relevant local authority); (d) confer on the Welsh Ministers a power to require the relevant local authority to provide specified information, for the purposes of deciding whether to exercise the power of designation. (3) The regulations may also provide, in cases where a local authority is designated as the building control authority in relation to the higher-risk building work, that the relevant local authority and the designated local authority may agree that the designated local authority is to be the building control authority in relation to any work of a prescribed description that has a prescribed connection with the higher-risk building work. (4) Where, as a result of regulations made by virtue of subsection (2)(c) or (3), a designated local authority is the building control authority in relation to any work, as regards that work— (a) prescribed functions are functions of the designated local authority (rather than the relevant local authority); (b) the designated local authority (rather than the relevant local authority) must perform such functions relating to enforcement as may be prescribed.

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91ZD Higher-risk buildings in Wales: local authority work

(1) Building regulations may make provision about cases where a local authority for an area in Wales (“the relevant local authority”) proposes to carry out higher-risk building work in that area. (2) The regulations may in particular— (a) restrict (or prevent) the exercise by the relevant local authority of prescribed functions in relation to the higher-risk building work; (b) require the relevant local authority to notify the Welsh Ministers of prescribed matters; (c) confer on the Welsh Ministers a power to designate another local authority as the building control authority in relation to the higher-risk building work (instead of the relevant local authority); (d) confer on the Welsh Ministers a power to require the relevant local authority to provide specified information, for the purposes of deciding whether to exercise the power of designation. (3) The regulations may also provide, in cases where a local authority is designated as the building control authority in relation to the higher-risk building work, that the relevant local authority and the designated local authority may agree that the designated local authority is to be the building control authority in relation to any work of a prescribed description that has a prescribed connection with the higher-risk building work. (4) Where, as a result of regulations made by virtue of subsection (2)(c) or (3), a designated local authority is the building control authority in relation to any work, as regards that work— (a) prescribed functions are functions of the designated local authority (rather than the relevant local authority); (b) the designated local authority (rather than the relevant local authority) must perform such functions relating to enforcement as may be prescribed.

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