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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-amendment-no-2-regulations-2002/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2871",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-amendment-no-2-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "PART E OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE BUILDING REGULATIONS 2000, AS SUBSTITUTED BY THESE REGULATIONS",
  "text": "Requirement\nLimits on application\nPART E RESISTANCE TO THE PASSAGE OF SOUND\nProtection against sound from other parts of the building and adjoining buildings\nE1 Dwelling-houses, flats and rooms for residential purposes shall be designed and constructed in such a way that they provide reasonable resistance to sound from other parts of the same building and from adjoining buildings.\nProtection against sound within a dwelling-house etc.\nE2 Dwelling-houses, flats and rooms for residential purposes shall be designed and constructed in such a way that—\n(a) internal walls between a bedroom or a room containing a water closet, and other rooms; and\n(b) internal floors,\nprovide reasonable resistance to sound.\nRequirement E2 does not apply to—\n(a) an internal wall which contains a door;\n(b) an internal wall which separates an en suite toilet from the associated bedroom;\n(c) existing walls and floors in a building which is subject to a material change of use.\nReverberation in common internal parts of buildings containing flats or rooms for residential purposes\nE3 The common internal parts of buildings which contain flats or rooms for residential purposes shall be designed and constructed in such a way as to prevent more reverberation around the common parts than is reasonable.\nRequirement E3 only applies to corridors, stairwells, hallways and entrance halls which give access to the flat or room for residential purposes.\nAcoustic conditions in schools\nE4 —\n(1) Each room or other space in a school building shall be designed and constructed in such a way that it has the acoustic conditions and the insulation against disturbance by noise appropriate to its intended use.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part—\n“school” has the same meaning as in section 4 of the Education Act 1996; and\n“school building” means any building forming a school or part of a school.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56. Section 4(1) was substituted by section 51 of the Education Act 1997 (c. 44)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2871/schedule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:39:47.843283+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."
}