Part 3: Building Act 1984 Building control authorities and building regulations Section 32: Building control authorities Effect in Wales
This section also applies to Wales and inserts new sections 91ZD and 121A into the Building Act 1984.
	The insertion of section 91ZD for Wales provides a power for the Welsh Ministers, in building regulations, to designate an alternative local authority to act as building control authority where the local authority for the area proposes to carry out higher-risk building work. This is to avoid the risk of a conflict of interest where the local authority would otherwise be both developer and regulator on a higher-risk building.
	New section 121A defines building control authorities and local authority for the purpose of the definition of building control authority in 121A(1), to confirm that the designated local authority is the building control authority for work in relation to which it has been designated.