After regulation 8, there shall be inserted the following regulation:—“8A 1 The prescribed form of an amendment notice shall be form 1A in Schedule 2.2 An amendment notice shall be accompanied by:—a the plans and documents described in the notes to those forms, andb a declaration signed by the insurer that a named scheme of insurance approved by the Secretary of State applies in relation to the work described in the notice.3 The grounds on which a local authority are required to reject an amendment notice are those prescribed in paragraphs 1 to 11 of Schedule 3.4 The period within which a local authority may give notice of rejection of an amendment notice is five working days beginning with the day on which the notice is given.5 Any reference in these Regulations to an initial notice or to an initial notice combined with a plans certificate shall in an appropriate case be construed as a reference to that initial notice as amended by an amendment notice which has been accepted by a local authority.”
In regulation 28, in paragraph (1)(a), after the words “initial notices”, there shall be inserted the words, “amendment notices, notices under section 51C of the Act”.
These Regulations shall not apply in relation to any work in respect of which an initial notice has been given and accepted by a local authority, before 14th October 1996 and, whilst such a notice continues in force, the 1985 regulations shall continue to apply as if these Regulations had not been made.