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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/55",
  "legislation_title": "Building Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Building regulations may—\n(a) provide for particular requirements of the regulations to be deemed to be complied with where prescribed methods of construction, prescribed types of materials or other prescribed means are used in or in connection with buildings\n(b) be framed to any extent by reference to a document published by or on behalf of the appropriate national authority or another person or a body, or by reference to the approval or satisfaction of a prescribed person or body.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(b) substituted (28.6.2022 for E., 5.9.2023 for W.) by Building Safety Act 2022 (c. 30), s. 170(4)(b)(c), Sch. 5 para. 83(2); S.I. 2022/561, reg. 3(f), Sch. para. 47; S.I. 2023/914, reg. 2(b)(xiii), Sch. para. 32"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2015/7",
      "affecting_title": "Infrastructure Act 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2015/7",
      "affecting_title": "Infrastructure Act 2015"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/55/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:04.213182+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."
}