Part 3: Building Act 1984 Building control approvers and building inspectors Section 52: Information gathering Effect
This section amends section 53 of the Building Act 1984 in order to enable a local authority to seek information from the person shown on the initial notice as the registered building control approver where it has ceased to supervise a project. This could include requiring a person who is no longer a registered building control approver to provide all its records of supervision of building work. The provision requires that any information provided to the local authority must also be copied to the person carrying out the work. New subsection (4C)(c) also gives the person carrying out the work with a power, by notice, to require other information which a new registered building control approver may need.
	This section also amends section 57 of the Building Act 1984 to make it a criminal offence to fail, without a reasonable excuse, to provide the local authority with the information requested.