{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-noise-control-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-noise-control-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/43",
  "legislation_title": "The Antisocial Behaviour (Noise Control) (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-noise-control-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Approved measuring devices – underlying level of noise",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 49(1) of the Act (approval of measuring devices), subject to paragraph (2), sound level meters which:\n(a) comply with the requirements of Class 1 of BS EN 61672; and\n(b) are capable of determining the A-weighted sound pressure level using time-weighting ‘F’,\nare devices approved for the measurement of the underlying level of noise, when used in accordance with the requirements of regulations 7 and 8.\n(2) Where LAN,T measurements are used to determine the underlying level of noise, the devices specified in paragraph (1) must in addition:\n(a) sample the sound pressure level at a rate of not less than 10 times per second; and\n(b) use in the statistical calculation a class interval of no greater than 0.5 decibels.\n(3) When time weighting ‘F’ is used for the purposes of paragraph (1) it shall not exceed 0.6 seconds in a period of no shorter than one minute and no longer than 5 minutes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/43/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:27:52.062549+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}