{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-D2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-D2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/389",
  "legislation_title": "Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/D2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "D2",
  "heading": "Disproportionate collapse",
  "text": "(1) A building to which this paragraph applies shall be designed and constructed so that in the event of damage occurring to any part of the building, the extent of any resulting collapse will not be disproportionate to the cause of the damage.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a building having 5 or more storeys, counting each basement level as one storey but discounting a storey within a roof space where the slope of the roof does not exceed 70° to the horizontal.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/389",
      "affecting_title": "Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/389/regulation/D2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:38.985369+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."
}