This section applies where a body (corporate or unincorporated) that acts under an enactment for public purposes and not for its own profit and is, or is of a description that is, approved by the appropriate national authority in accordance with building regulations (in this Part of this Act referred to as a "public body")—
A public body's notice is of no effect to the extent that it relates to higher-risk building work in England (and accordingly Schedule 4 does not have effect in relation to such work).
A public body's notice is of no effect unless it is accepted by the local authority to whom it is given; and that local authority—
and, in a case where the work to which the public body's notice relates is work of such a description that, if plans of if had been deposited with an application for building control approval in respect of it had been made to the local authority, the authority could, under an enactment, have imposed requirements as a condition of passing the plans granting the application, the local authority may impose the like requirements as a condition of accepting the public body's notice.
Unless, within the prescribed period, the local authority to whom a public body's notice is given give notice of rejection, specifying the ground or grounds in question, the authority is conclusively presumed to have accepted the public body's notice and to have done so without imposing any such requirements as are referred to in subsection (2) above.
Section 48 above has effect for the purposes of this section—
The form prescribed for a public body's notice may be such as to require the public body by whom it is to be given—
Where a public body's notice is given and accepted by the local authority to whom it is given, the provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act have effect, being provisions that correspond, as nearly as may be, to those made by the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act for the case where an initial notice is given and accepted.