New Clause 27 - Compliance with building regulations
Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill
4:30 pm
‘(1)Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary a prosecution for an offence under Part L of the Building Regulations 2000 may be brought at any time within one year of the date of the discovery of that offence, except that no such prosecution shall be commenced after the expiration of three years from the commission of that offence.
(2)The Secretary of State must by 1st January 2007 and thereafter at such other times as he deems appropriate lay before Parliament a report on what, if any, steps he has taken and proposes to take to secure greater compliance with Part L of the Building Regulations 2000.’.—[Mark Lazarowicz.]