Building Control Regulations 2020

JurisdictionIreland
CitationIR SI 113/2020
Year2020

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 7th April, 2020.

I, EOGHAN MURPHY, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 6 , and subsection (3) of section 7 , of the Building Control Act 1990 (No. 3 of 1990) (as adapted by the Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 358 of 2017)), hereby make the following regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Building Control Regulations 2020.

(2) The Building Control Regulations 1997 to 2018 and these Regulations may be cited together as the Building Control Regulations 1997 to 2020.

2. In these Regulations –

“material change of use” has the meaning assigned to it by the Principal Regulations;

“Principal Regulations” means Building Control Regulations 1997 (No. 496 of 1997);

“relevant period” means the period commencing on 13 March 2020 and ending on the day on which Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020 (No. 1 of 2020) ceases to have effect by virtue of subsection (3) of section 2 of that Act;

“State authority” means –

(a) a Minister of the Government, or

(b) the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.

3. (1) Parts II, III, IIIA (other than Article 20C), IIIB and IIIC and Article 43 of the Principal Regulations shall not apply in relation to –

(a) works consisting of, or in connection with, the construction, extension, alteration, repair, or renewal of a building of a class specified in Schedule 1 carried out and completed during the relevant period by, or on behalf of, a State authority, or

(b) a material change of use to use as a building of such a class during the relevant period by, or on behalf of, a State authority.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), Article 20C of the Principal Regulations shall apply in relation to works referred to in paragraph (1) as if “shall, not later than 12 months from the expiration of the relevant period (within the meaning of the Building Control Regulations 2020),” were substituted for “shall”.

(3) Article 20C of the Principal Regulations shall not apply to works in relation to a building to which paragraph (1) applies if the building is demolished or removed before the expiration of 12 months from the end of the relevant period.

4. (1) The Principal Regulations shall not apply in relation to a material change of use of a relevant building to the use for which it was used immediately before the material change of use referred to in subparagraph (b) of paragraph (1) of Regulation 3.

(2) In this Regulation “relevant building” means a building to which a material change of use referred to in subparagraph (b) of paragraph (1) of Regulation 3 applies.

5. (1) Where works referred to in Regulation 3 are carried out by, or on behalf of a State authority, during the relevant period the State authority shall, not later than 28 days after the commencement of those works, serve a notice (in these Regulations referred to as a “works (Covid-19 crisis) notice”) in the form specified in Schedule 2 on the building control authority within whose functional area those works are carried out.

(2) A works (Covid-19 crisis) notice shall be accompanied by a declaration in the form specified in Schedule 3 made by the State authority concerned.

(3) A building control authority upon which a works (Covid-19 crisis) notice and declaration referred to in paragraph (2) is served shall –

(a) if satisfied that the works (Covid-19 crisis) notice and declaration are in the proper form and contain the information required by these Regulations to be provided in that form, notify the State authority in writing that the State authority has complied with paragraphs (1) and (2), or

(b) if not so satisfied, request the State authority to provide such information to the building control authority as it may reasonably require for the purposes of these Regulations.

(4) A building control authority that has made a request in accordance with subparagraph (b) of paragraph (3) shall, upon receipt of the information requested, notify the State authority in writing that the building control authority is satisfied that the State authority has complied with paragraphs (1) and (2).?

SCHEDULE 1

(Regulation 3)

CLASSES OF BUILDING FOR PURPOSES OF REGULATION 3

1. Acute and other health and social care accommodation.

2...

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