The Building Act 1984 is a United Kingdom statute consolidating previous legislation concerning the construction process, and the design and specifications for buildings and their component parts, and related matters, in England and Wales. The Welsh Government may make its own Building Regulations under this Act for Wales. This Building Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland, which both have similar but differing legislation.
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| - The Building Act 1984 is a United Kingdom statute consolidating previous legislation concerning the construction process, and the design and specifications for buildings and their component parts, and related matters, in England and Wales. The Welsh Government may make its own Building Regulations under this Act for Wales. This Building Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland, which both have similar but differing legislation. (en)
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| - The Building Act 1984 is a United Kingdom statute consolidating previous legislation concerning the construction process, and the design and specifications for buildings and their component parts, and related matters, in England and Wales. The Welsh Government may make its own Building Regulations under this Act for Wales. This Building Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland, which both have similar but differing legislation. The Building Act permits detailed regulations to be made by the English Secretary of State and/or The Welsh Ministers (of the Senedd). The Building Regulations made under the Building Act have been periodically updated, rewritten or consolidated, with the latest and current version being the Building Regulations 2016. More minor amendments have been issued, for example in 2019 and 2020 in respect of enhanced Fire Safety measures. (See new Building Regulation 7(2) that placed a urgent ban on the use of combustible materials in external walls, of high-risk buildings - over (six floors) 18m high). Following the horrific Grenfell Tower Fire of 2017, in which 72 people died in a 24-floor block of flats (without sprinklers and combustible external wall materials had been recently added to the block - for improved energy-efficiency and other building management reasons), an independent review into Building Regulations and fire safety was commissioned by the English Government and chaired by Dame Judith Hackitt. The review's report was published on 17 May 2018. The English Government surveyed 1,200 recently erected "High Rise" buildings and it was found that far too many were in fact not compliant with the pre-2017 fire safety requirements of the English Building Regulations. The Government has now ordered many of these "dangerous" higher-risk buildings to be "remediated". The (English) Government has asked many more 'older' high-rise building owners to examine their stock for safety risks. Some 12,000 blocks have now been reviewed. Local Housing Authorities and Regional Fire Authorities have been instructed to ensure remediation of recently erected blocks is carried out as quickly as possible. (Source: "Fire Safety Order 2005" & the new "Fire Safety Act 2020") (en)
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