{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-disabled-people-regulations-1987/schedule",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-disabled-people-regulations-1987/schedule.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1445",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Disabled People) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-disabled-people-regulations-1987",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Requirement\nLimits on application\nPART M — DISABLED PEOPLE\nInterpretationM1.\nIn this Part—\n“disabled people” means people with a physical impairment which limits their ability to walk and people who need to use a wheelchair for mobility; and\n“relevant premises” means—\n(a) an office,\n(b) a shop,\n(c) so much (if any) of—\n(i) a factory (within the meaning of section 175 of the Factories Act 1961),\n(ii) a school or other educational establishment,\n(iii) any premises to which the public are admitted whether on payment or otherwise,\nas is (or are) on the storey of the building concerned which contains the principal entrance to that building.\nMeans of access\nM2 Reasonable provision shall be made to enable disabled people to gain access to the relevant premises, and to those parts of the relevant premises to which it is reasonable to provide access.\nSanitary conveniences\nM3 Where sanitary conveniences are provided in connection with relevant premises, reasonable provision shall be made for disabled people.\nAudience or spectator seating\nM4 Where relevant premises contain audience or spectator seating, reasonable provision shall be made to accommodate disabled people.\n1 The requirements of this Part apply only to a building which is, erected and which is, or contains, relevant premises.\n2 When an existing building is extended or altered, then in applying paragraphs (4), (5) and (6) of regulation 2 to determine whether the work shall be regarded as adversely affecting the existing building, there shall be disregarded any intended use as relevant premises of:\n(a) the extension or any part of it,\n(b) any part of the existing building which was not used as relevant premises before the alteration,\n(c) any part of any existing relevant premises to which access was not, or would not have been, required by requirement M2 before the alteration.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2768",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Regulations 1991"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1445/schedule",
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  "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."
}