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Section 91ZA: The regulator: building control authority for higher-risk buildings in England

Building Act 1984 · 1984 c. 55View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IV: General

The regulator is the building control authority in relation to any higher-risk building in England or any proposed such building.

This includes the regulator being the building control authority as regards—

any work relating to a building in England that is not a higher-risk building that causes it to become such a building, and
any work relating to a higher-risk building in England that causes it to cease to be such a building.

In this Act "higher-risk building work", in relation to England, means any work for which the regulator is the building control authority by virtue of this section.

For the meaning of "higher-risk building" see section 120D.

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