Building Control (Accredited Checkers and Accredited Checking Organisations) Regulations

The committee of persons appointed by the Commissioner of Building Control to assist him under section 16(5) of the Act shall be known as the Accreditation Selection Panel.

For the purpose of determining whether an applicant has fulfilled the prescribed requirements for registration as an accredited checker or a specialist accredited checker, the Accreditation Selection Panel may interview any applicant for registration as an accredited checker or a specialist accredited checker to determine whether the applicant has such proper and recognised training and practical experience in the design and construction of buildings as will enable him to effectively perform the duties of an accredited checker or a specialist accredited checker, as the case may be.

The Accreditation Selection Panel shall be chaired by the Commissioner of Building Control or by such person as the Commissioner may appoint from amongst the members of the Panel.

No person shall be registered under the Act as an accredited checker, or have his registration as an accredited checker renewed, unless he can satisfy the Commissioner of Building Control that —

Paragraph (1)(e) shall not apply if the accredited checker undertakes work which is required by the Act or the building regulations to be undertaken by an accredited checker who is either a director, partner, member or an employee of an accredited checking organisation and as an accredited checker on behalf of an accredited checking organisation.

The Commissioner of Building Control may, subject to such conditions as he may specify, waive the requirements of paragraph (1)(e) in respect of any period if the applicant satisfies the Commissioner that he will not undertake work as an accredited checker on his own behalf during that period.

The Commissioner of Building Control may refuse to renew any registration as an accredited checker which has previously been suspended or cancelled.

No person shall be registered under the Act as a specialist accredited checker, or have his registration as a specialist accredited checker renewed, unless he can satisfy the Commissioner of Building Control that —

The Commissioner of Building Control may, subject to such conditions as he may specify, waive the requirements of paragraph (1)(d) in respect of any period if the applicant satisfies the Commissioner that he will not undertake work as a specialist accredited checker on his own behalf during that period.

The Commissioner of Building Control may refuse to renew any registration as a specialist accredited checker which has previously been suspended or cancelled.

No firm shall be registered as an accredited checking organisation, or have its registration as an accredited checking organisation renewed, unless —

The Commissioner of Building Control may refuse to renew any registration as an accredited checking organisation which has previously been suspended or cancelled.

It shall be the duty of an accredited checker to —

Without prejudice to paragraph (1), an accredited checker shall in relation to any plans of building works carry out the tasks set out in the Second Schedule.

It shall be the duty of the accredited checker and, where the work of the accredited checker is required by the Act to be undertaken by an accredited checker who is either a director, partner, member or an employee of an accredited checking organisation, the accredited checking organisation, to notify the Commissioner of Building Control of any contravention or non-compliance with the provisions of the Act in connection with the structural design of any plans of building works.

Nothing in this regulation shall impose any such duty referred to in paragraph (3) on an accredited checker or an accredited checking organisation in respect of any such contravention or non-compliance which he or it, as the case may be, did not know and could not reasonably have discovered.

It shall be the duty of a specialist accredited checker appointed in respect of building works which comprise wholly or partly of any geotechnical building works to —

Without prejudice to paragraph (1), a specialist accredited checker shall in relation to any plans of geotechnical building works carry out the tasks set out in the Third Schedule.

It shall be the duty of the specialist accredited checker appointed under section 8(1) of the Act in respect of building works which comprise wholly or partly of any geotechnical building works to notify the Commissioner of Building Control of any contravention or non-compliance with the provisions of the Act in connection with any of the geotechnical aspects of the geotechnical building works.

Nothing in this regulation shall impose any such duty referred to in paragraph (2) on a specialist accredited checker in respect of any such contravention or non-compliance which he did not know and could not reasonably have discovered.

An accredited checker shall, without delay after performing his duty in relation to any plans of building works, prepare and submit to the Commissioner of Building Control —

A specialist accredited checker shall, without delay after performing his duty in relation to any plans of building works which comprise wholly or partly of any geotechnical building works, prepare and submit to the Commissioner of Building Control —

Where the accredited checker has completed his duty in relation to any plans of building works —

Where a specialist accredited checker has completed his duty in relation to any plans of geotechnical building works, he shall without delay submit to the Commissioner of Building Control a declaration that he has no professional or financial interest in those geotechnical building works.

For the purposes of section 17(1)(g) of the Act, an accredited checker, whether he is a director, partner, member or an employee of an accredited checking organisation and acting on its behalf or otherwise, shall be regarded as failing to meet the prescribed standards of performance for that section if he fails, in relation to any plans of building works, to carry out the tasks set out in the Second Schedule.

For the purposes of section 17(1)(g) of the Act, a specialist accredited checker shall be regarded as failing to meet the prescribed standards of performance for that section if he fails, in relation to the geotechnical aspects of any geotechnical building works, to carry out the tasks set out in the Third Schedule.