Building control reform
The Act includes provisions to improve competence levels and accountability in the building control sector by creating a unified professional and regulatory structure for building control, changing and modernising the existing legislative framework.
	The Building Safety Regulator will be required to establish and maintain a register of building inspectors (individuals) and building control approvers (either organisations or individuals). These changes introduced through the Act are reflected in new titles for individuals and organisations.
	Individuals and organisations currently known as "Approved Inspectors" who wish to continue undertaking building control work will need to register as "building control approvers".
	The role of a registered building inspector being introduced through this Act is new. A registered building inspector is an individual who will be able to provide advice to local authorities or registered building control approvers overseeing building work. Many inspectors in local authorities and Approved Inspectors are expected to transition to this role.
	The Act also removes the ability for a person carrying out building work on higher-risk buildings to choose their own building control body where building control is required. The Building Safety Regulator will be the building control body for these buildings.
	Additional amendments to existing legislation:
give obligations to the local authority, registered building control approver and person carrying out the work to cancel an initial notice when the work covered by the notice becomes higher-risk building work;
amend the existing powers and obligations for local authorities, registered building control approver and the person carrying out the work to cancel initial notices for non-higher-risk building work;
give powers to the Building Safety Regulator to be able to enforce building regulations when non-higher-risk building work becomes higher-risk building work;
allow the Secretary of State to make regulations as to how the new regulatory regime for higher-risk buildings will be applied (if at all) to a public body designated under sections 5 or 54 of the Building Act 1984;
enable a local authority and the Building Safety Regulator to seek information from a registered building control approver where it has ceased to supervise a project;
require the Building Safety Regulator to set up the new national electronic register/portal of information governing the work of registered building control approvers;
amend the existing powers to give the Secretary of State the ability to designate bodies for the purposes of publishing criteria for and/or approving an insurance scheme; and
create a new process to appoint a new registered building control approver where an existing approver ceases to supervise work and the existing works may or may not have been signed off by the previous approver.