Regulation 26
SCHEDULE 5Grounds for rejecting a transfer certificate and transfer report
This schedule has no associated Explanatory Memorandum
Required information
1. The transfer certificate does not include the information required by regulation 25 (information to be included in transfer certificates).
Wrong local authority
2. No part of the unfinished work described in the transfer certificate is to be carried out in the area of the local authority to whom the transfer certificate has been given.
No initial notice
3. No new initial notice under section 53(7)(a) of the 1984 Act was in force with respect to the work described in the transfer certificate at the time the transfer certificate was given.
Capacity of approver
4. A new initial notice was in force with respect to the unfinished work described in the transfer certificate at the time the certificate was given, but—
(a)the certificate is not signed by the approver who gave the new initial notice,
(b)the person who signed the certificate is not an approver on the date the certificate is rejected, or
(c)where they are an approver, their registration does not include all the work described in the certificate.
Breach of section 54B
5. The person specified in the certificate as the registered building inspector who gave advice in relation to that certificate—
(a)was not a registered building inspector on the date the certificate was submitted; or
(b)was a registered building inspector on that date but their registration did not include all the work described in the certificate.
Earlier notice
6.—(1) Except where sub-paragraph (2) applies, a new initial notice under section 53(7)(a) of the 1984 Act (“an earlier notice”) has already been given in respect of any part of the unfinished work described in the notice.
(2) The ground in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply if—
(a)an earlier notice has ceased to be in force and the local authority has taken no positive step to supervise the work described in it, or
(b)the notice is accompanied by an undertaking by the approver who gave an earlier notice to the effect that the approver will cancel that notice as soon as the initial notice under consideration is accepted.
Local authority action
7.—(1) The local authority has given a section 36 notice, a compliance notice or a stop notice in relation to the unfinished work().
(2) The local authority received an application in relation to the whole or part of the unfinished work in accordance with regulation 18 of the 2010 Regulations.
(3) The local authority has otherwise taken any positive step to supervise the unfinished work.
Failure to provide information requested
8. The approver has been given a request under section 53C(4) of the 1984 Act but failed to provide the information within the period referred to in that section.