{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-E1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-E1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/389",
  "legislation_title": "Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/E1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E1",
  "heading": "Application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Regulations E2 and E4(3) shall not apply to a prison within the meaning of the Prisons Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 or any other place of lawful detention.\n(2) In this Part—\nassembly building includes places of entertainment or recreation; conference, exhibition, and leisure centres; museums and art galleries; law courts; churches and other buildings for worship; libraries open to the public; health centres and surgeries; passenger stations for air, rail, road and sea travel; and public toilets;\ndwelling means a self-contained unit of residential accommodation occupied (whether or not as a sole or main residence)—\n(a) by a single person or by people living together as a family; or\n(b) by not more than 6 people living together as a single household, including a household where care is provided for residents;\ndwellinghouse means a dwelling on one or more storeys which is detached or forms part of a building from all other parts of which it is divided only vertically;\nflat means a dwelling on one storey forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally;\nhouse in multiple occupation means a building, or part of a building, occupied by people who do not form a single household and containing units of residential accommodation which are not self-contained;\ninternal linings means the materials lining any partition, wall, ceiling or other internal structure;\nmaisonette means a dwelling on more than one storey forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally;\nmeans of escape means structural means whereby, in the event of a fire, a safe route or routes is or are provided for people to travel from any point in a building to a place of safety;\noffice includes premises used for the purposes of administration; clerical work; handling money; and communications;\nplace of safety means a place, outside the building, in which people are in no danger from fire within the building;\nresidential health care building includes nursing homes; homes for old people, children, mentally ill and the mentally or physically handicapped;\nshopping complex means a shopping complex that includes a covered mall or similar area in which—\n(a) more than 15 m of the length of the mall section is covered by a bridge or roof; or\n(b) at least one-quarter of its plan area is obscured by a roof or by floors, bridges, galleries or canopies, unless there is a continuous open slot above the mall section in which case more than one-half of its plan area is obscured; and\nspectator accommodation means covered seating accommodation at sports grounds.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1953 c. 18 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "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/E1",
    "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."
}