Schedule 5: Minor and consequential amendments in connection with Part 3 Paragraphs 11(4), 12(3)- (5), 13(4), and 18
Paragraph 11(4) inserts new section 8(3A) into the Building Act 1984 to enable the Building Safety Regulator to issue, on application, dispensations or relaxations from requirements of building regulations where it is the building control authority. Where the Building Safety Regulator is the building control authority applications for dispensations or relaxations can only be made to it. Paragraphs 12(3)-(5) and 13(4) make consequential amendments to sections 9 and 10 of the Building Act 1984, which set out procedural requirements relating to the making and granting of applications for dispensations or relaxations. Paragraph 18 makes a consequential amendment to section 15 of the Building Act 1984.