Building Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 105/2014
• Year: 2014

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 7th March, 2014.

I, PHIL HOGAN, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 , 6 , 17 and 18 of the Building Control Act 1990 (No. 3 of 1990), hereby make the following regulations:

Citation

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Building Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014.

(2) The Principal Regulations and these Regulations may be cited together as the Building Control Regulations 1997 to 2014 and shall be construed together as one.

Commencement

2. These Regulations come into operation on 1 March 2014.

Interpretation generally

3. In these Regulations:

“Principal Regulations” means the Building Control Regulations 1997 ( S.I. No. 496 of 1997 ) as amended by the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2000 ( S.I. No. 10 of 2000 ), the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2004 ( S.I. No. 85 of 2004 ), the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 351 of 2009 ) and the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 9 of 2014 ).

Amendment of Article 3 of the Principal Regulations

4. The Principal Regulations are amended by inserting after Article 3(5) the following:

“(6)(a) Notwithstanding the requirements arising at Articles 9, 20A, 20F and 21 in respect of the assignment of an Assigned Certifier and the lodgement of an Inspection Plan, in the case of the classes of buildings referred to at paragraph (b), for the period of the transitional arrangements set out at paragraph (c), these requirements may be fulfilled by the lodgement of such Inspection Plan, inspection records and certificates as may be deemed appropriate and necessary by the Oversight Group in order to demonstrate that compliance with the requirements of the Second Schedule to the Building Regulations has been achieved for the building or works concerned.

(b) The provisions at paragraph (a) may apply to the following categories of buildings—

(i) buildings intended for use as places of first level, second level or third level education;

(ii) buildings intended for use as hospitals and primary care centres.

(c) The provisions at paragraph (a) shall only apply to buildings referred to at paragraph (b) where each of the following circumstances has been fulfilled—

(i) planning permission, where applicable, has been obtained before 1 March 2014;

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