Part 3: Building Act 1984 Building control approvers and building inspectors Section 53: Information Background
The Building Act 1984 provides for registers of documentation in the Approved Inspector system to be held locally by each local authority. In some cases, local authorities have developed their own electronic registers, but in many cases these registers are still maintained in paper form, and it is difficult to access and utilise the information they contain.
	These provisions are designed to modernise the sections of the Building Act 1984 which facilitate the efficient functioning of the new registered building control approver system and its oversight.
	Whilst no new information will be added to existing registers once the new national register comes into force, the existing local registers will need to be kept and accessible to the public for a long period or historic information may be uploaded to the electronic register/portal.
Example: Submitting an initial notice
A registered building control approver and person(s) carrying out the works submit an initial notice under section 47 of the Building Act 1984. They will submit the prescribed information via the new electronic portal set up by the Building Safety Regulator. The local authority will be notified immediately of the submission by the electronic portal and can accept or reject the initial notice via the electronic portal, or the initial notice might be deemed to be accepted by virtue of the prescribed time period elapsing (in section 47 of the Building Act 1984).
If the local authority accepts the initial notice with conditions or rejects it under prescribed grounds, it will be required to file this acceptance or rejection via the electronic portal.