{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-1991/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-1991/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2768",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Meaning of material change of use",
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 8(1)(e) of Schedule 1 to the Act and for the purposes of these Regulations, there is a material change of use where there is a change in the purposes for which or the circumstances in which a bui1ding is used, so that after that change–\n(a) the building is used as a dwelling, where previously it was not;\n(b) the building contains a flat, where previously it did not;\n(c) the building is used as a hotel or boarding house, where previously it was not;\n(d) the building is used as an institution, where previously it was not;\n(e) the building is used as a public building, where previously it was not; or\n(f) the building is not a building described in Classes I to VI in Schedule 2, where previously it was.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1356",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1356",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Regulations (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2768/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:33:03.693485+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."
}