{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-amendment-regulations-2016/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/71",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Energy Performance of Buildings) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "text": "(1) The Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) For regulation 17(1)(a) (continuing requirements) substitute—\n“(a) accessible parts of every air-conditioning system within a building are inspected at regular intervals not exceeding five years; and”.\n(3) In paragraph 6.1 (carbon dioxide emissions) of Schedule 5 (building standards applicable to design and construction)—\n(a) omit “and” after sub-paragraph (a);\n(b) after sub-paragraph (b) insert—\n“; and\n(c) it is a nearly zero-energy building”; and\n(c) at the end insert—\n“Interpretation of this standard\nIn this standard—\n“energy from renewable sources” means energy from renewable non-fossil sources, namely wind, solar, aero-thermal, geothermal, hydrothermal and ocean energy, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogases; and\n“nearly zero-energy building” means a building that has a very high energy performance, as determined in accordance with a methodology approved under regulation 7 of the Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2008, where the nearly zero or very low amount of energy required should be covered to a very significant extent by energy from renewable sources, including energy from renewable sources produced on site or nearby.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2004/406."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 17 was amended by S.S.I. 2006/534 and S.S.I. 2012/209."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 6.1 was amended by S.S.I. 2006/534, S.S.I. 2010/32 and S.S.I. 2014/219."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Schedule 5 was substituted by S.S.I. 2006/534."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2008/309. Regulation 7 was substituted by S.S.I. 2012/315."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/71/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:13.087820+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."
}