38 Compliance and stop notices
Building Safety Act 2022 (2022 c 30) | Legislation

38  Compliance and stop notices

(1)     In the Building Act 1984 before section 36 insert—

“Notices in respect of contraventions

35B Compliance notices

(1)     The building control authority may give a compliance notice to a person who appears to the authority to have contravened, be contravening or be likely to contravene—

(a)     a relevant provision of building regulations, or

(b)     a requirement imposed by virtue of such a provision.

(2)     A “compliance notice” is—

(a)     a notice requiring the recipient to take specified steps within a specified period, or

(b)     a notice requiring the recipient to remedy the contravention or the matters giving rise to it within a specified period.

(3)     A notice of a kind mentioned in subsection (2)(a) may specify any steps relating to—

(a)     the remedying of the contravention, or

(b)     avoiding the contravention occurring.

(4)     A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes a compliance notice commits an offence.

(5)     A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—

(a)     on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum summary term for either-way offences or a fine (or both);

(b)     on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for

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