Part 3: Building Act 1984 Building control approvers and building inspectors Section 53: Information Effect
This section amends the Building Act 1984 by inserting sections 56A to 56C.
	This section, which mainly applies to England only, repeals the requirement under section 56 of the Building Act 1984 for local authorities to hold local registers of information received from registered building control approvers (although regulations provide for existing information held on the current registers to be saved in their historic form for a long transitional period or uploaded to the new electronic register/portal).
	Under new section 56A the Building Safety Regulator must establish and maintain a facility which is the national electronic portal.
	The provision gives the Secretary of State the power to set out in regulations a requirement for a specified person such as the registered building control approver, the person carrying out the work or the local authority to use the national electronic portal to submit information. This power also enables the Secretary of State to authorise specified persons to submit information through other means such as physical documents.
	Under section 56B the Building Safety Regulator must keep a register of specified information. The register must be maintained in electronic form and ensure that any specified parts of the register are available for inspection by members of the public. In specified circumstances, where a request has been made for copies of documents, these must be made available to members of the public. The information covered will be set out in regulations and is likely to include, but is not limited to, notices, certificates, orders, consents, demands and plans.
	Under section 56C the Building Safety Regulator is given the power to delegate another body to carry out the function of setting up and running the new electronic portal/register.
	This section also makes a number of consequential amendments.