Part 1: New Homes in England Chapter 2: Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Section 12: Further and consequential amendments
This section makes three further changes to the 2015 Act.
	The first change relates to the obligation to keep a register under the 2015 Act. This section enables the Secretary of State to provide, in regulations, for the register to have two parts. The second part would be for anyone who had applied to be registered but who failed to meet conditions of eligibility (for example, local authorities might introduce a requirement that a person must have a connection to the local area before they can be registered). Demand as evidenced by the second part of the register would not have to be taken into account in considering whether there were sufficient suitable development permissions. However, authorities have to have regard to the second register in the exercise of their planning, housing, regeneration and land disposal functions in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the 2015 Act.
	The second change is about fees. It enables the Secretary of State to provide, through regulations, that local authorities can recover fees connected with their duty to provide sufficient suitable development permissions. It also enables the Secretary of State to specify, through regulations, circumstances in which no fee is payable. It is expected that the fees will be set at a level that broadly reflects the actual costs incurred by the authority.
	The final change is to section 4 of the 2015 Act and specifies the Parliamentary procedures to which the new regulation making powers will be subject.  This confirms that regulations made in connection with the new duty and regulations made to change the definition of "serviced plot of land" will be subject to the affirmative procedure.