Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
c. 3759
1959 c. 24.
Part III
Building Regulations and Amendment of Building (Scotland) Act 1959
Amendments of enactments relating to building regulations.
1961 c. 64.
61.—(1) For sections 61 and 62 of the 1936 Act (power to make building regulations, and their application to existing buildings) there shall be substituted the following sections―
- “Power to make building regulations.
- 61.—(1) Subject to the provisions of Part II of the Public Health Act 1961, the Secretary of State shall have power, for any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (2) below, to make regulations with respect to the design and construction of buildings and the provision of services, fittings and equipment in or in connection with buildings.
- Regulations under this subsection shall be known as building regulations.
- (2) The purposes referred to in the preceding subsection are the following, that is to say—
- (a) securing the health, safety, welfare and convenience of persons in or about buildings and of others who may be affected by buildings or matters connected with buildings;
- (b) furthering the conservation of fuel and power; and
- (c) preventing waste, undue consumption, misuse or contamination of water.
- (3) Building regulations may—
- (a) provide for particular requirements of the regulations to be deemed to be complied with where prescribed methods of construction, prescribed types of materials or other prescribed means are used in or in connection with buildings;
- (b) be framed to any extent by reference to a document published by or on behalf of the Secretary of State or any other person or any body, or by reference to the approval or satisfaction of any prescribed person or body.
- (4) Building regulations may include provision as to—
- (a) the giving of notices;
- (b) the deposit of plans of proposed work or work already executed (including provision as to the number of copies to be deposited);
