Building control bodies: contraventions and criminal offences
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What happens when the Building Safety Regulator investigates a registered building control approver in England or Wales, or a local authority in England.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What happens when the Building Safety Regulator investigates a registered building control approver in England or Wales, or a local authority in England. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Investigations
- Investigations: registered building control approvers (RBCAs)
- Investigations: local authorities in England
- Starting an investigation
- During an investigation: interim suspension
- After an investigation
- Sanctions for professional misconduct
- Financial penalties
- Variation of registration
- Suspension of registration
- Cancellation of registration for professional misconduct
- Enforcement of OSRs
- Contravention letter
- Improvement notice
- Serious contravention notice
- Cancellation of registration for contravening the OSRs
Source and licence
Building Safety Regulator
AttributionBuilding Safety Regulator, ‘Building control bodies: contraventions and criminal offences’ (updated 19 March 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026