The Building Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/77
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Building Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

Section 2 Amendment of the Building Regulations 1991

The Building Regulations 1991 (“the Principal Regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4 of these Regulations.

Section 3 Interpretation

In regulation 2(1), the definitions of “Construction Products Directive”, “European technical approval” and “harmonized standard” shall be omitted.

Section 4 Interpretation

For regulation 7 there shall be substituted the following–

Materials and workmanship

(7) Building work shall be carried out–

(a) with adequate and proper materials which–

(i) are appropriate for the circumstances in which they are used,

(ii) are adequately mixed or prepared, and

(iii) are applied, used or fixed so as adequately to perform the functions for which they are designed; and

(b) in a workmanlike manner.

Section 5 Transitional provisions

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Principal Regulations shall continue to apply to any building work as if these Regulations had not been made where–

(a) before 1st April 1999 a building notice, an initial notice, an amendment notice or a public body’s notice has been given to, or full plans have been deposited with, a local authority in respect of the building work; and

(b) that work is carried out thereafter in accordance with any such notice or plans, whether with or without any departure from such plans.

(2) Where an initial notice given before 1st April 1999 is varied by an amendment notice given on or after that date, the Principal Regulations shall continue to apply as if these Regulations had not been made, to so much of the building work as could have been carried out under that initial notice if the amendment notice had not been given.

(3) In this regulation, “building notice” and “building work” shall have the same meaning as in the Principal Regulations.