Where a building has been built in breach of the Building Regulations, enforcement proceedings may be taken against the owner or occupier of the building concerned or any other person who carried out or is carrying out the works to which the enforcement relates. The enforcement proceedings (by administrative notice or court order) may require steps to be taken by way of remediation, removal of works, discontinuance of works, prohibition of use and \/or payment of the building control authority\u2019s costs. In this sense compliance, may not be delegated by the owner or occupier\/user of the building.<\/p>\n
It is an offence to fail to comply with any requirement in the legislation, \u00a0including an administrative enforcement notice.\u00a0 A person who contravenes an enforcement notice may be summoned to the District Court and may be subject to a fine with a daily rate accruing. The fine may be up to \u20ac5,000 and\/or 6 months in prison with up to \u20ac500 per day in respect of each day, on which the offence continues.<\/p>\n
In the case of an offence committed by a body corporate, where an offence has been \u00a0committed with the consent or connivance of or is attributable to the neglect of any person or any person acting on its behalf being a director, manager or secretary of such body, that person may also be found guilty of an offence.<\/p>\n\n
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Building Regulations The legislation gives the Minister priority to make building regulations.\u00a0 Building regulations may be made in relation to the design and construction of buildings, material alterations or extension of buildings the provision of \u00a0services, fittings and equipment in, or in connection with buildings, material changes in the use of buildings to secure the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[305],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}