Flood and Water Management Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:45 pm on 21 January 2010.
Building regulations: flood resistance
‘(1) After paragraph 8(5) of Schedule 1 to the Building Act 1984 (building regulations: application to buildings erected before the regulations come into force) insert—
“(5A) The provision that may be made by building regulations includes provision imposing on a person carrying out work of any type in relation to a building (whenever erected), or in relation to any service, fitting or equipment provided in or in connection with a building (whenever erected), a requirement to do things for the purpose mentioned in section 1(1)(a) of this Act in so far as it relates to the resistance or resilience of buildings in respect of flooding.”
(2) In paragraph 8(6) of that Schedule after “sub-paragraph (5)” insert “or (5A)”’.—(Huw Irranca-Davies.)
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