BUILDING AND BUILDINGS Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force as follows– a regulation 7, and regulation 2 so far as it relates to regulation 7, on 1st December 1998; b the remainder, on 1st March 1999. Amendments to the Regulations 2 The Building (Approved Inspectors etc.) Regulations 1985 (“the 1985 regulations ”) shall be amended as follows. 3 For regulation 3 there shall be substituted the following– Approval of Inspectors 3 1 Where the Secretary of State has designated a body in accordance with regulation 4 (referred to in these regulations as a “designated body”), a person seeking to be an approved inspector shall apply to a designated body giving particulars of: a in the case of a person other than a body corporate, his qualifications and experience; and b in the case of a body corporate, the number, qualifications and experience of the people to be employed in the discharge of its functions under these regulations, and the person shall answer any inquiries which that designated body makes about those matters. 2 Where there is no designated body, a person seeking to be an approved inspector shall apply to the Secretary of State giving particulars of: a in the case of a person other than a body corporate, his qualifications and experience; and b in the case of a body corporate, the number, qualifications and experience of the people to be employed in the discharge of its functions under these regulations, and the person shall answer any inquiries which the Secretary of State makes about those matters. Designation of bodies to approve inspectors 4 In regulation 4 the words “(referred to in these regulations as “a designated body”)” shall be deleted. Termination of approval or designation 5 In regulation 6(1) after the words “a designated body” there shall be added “or by the Secretary of State”. Lists of approvals and designations 6 In regulation 7(4), after the words “shall indicate the date”, the words “, if any,” shall be deleted. Events causing initial notice to cease to be in force 7 In regulation 16(2)(i), for the words “a period of one day” there shall be substituted the words “a period of four weeks”. Forms 8 In Schedule 2, for paragraph 4(a) of Forms 1 and 3, and for paragraph 3(b) of Form 1A, there shall be substituted the following paragraph– In the case of a notice given by an inspector approved following an application under regulation 3(1) of the 1985 regulations, a copy of the notice of approval. Transitional provision 9 Where, on 1st March 1999 a body corporate has applied to the Secretary of State under regulation 3(1) of the 1985 regulations, the Secretary of State has not notified the body corporate of his approval under regulation 5 of the 1985 regulations and the Secretary of State has designated a body in accordance with regulation 4 of the 1985 regulations, the application of the body corporate shall be transferred by the Secretary of State to a designated body and the application will be deemed to have been made in accordance with regulation 3(1) of the 1985 regulations as amended by these regulations. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Nick Raynsford Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 21st September 1998