# Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, Regulation E1: Application and interpretation

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

(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.
(2) In this Part—
assembly 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;
dwelling means a self-contained unit of residential accommodation occupied (whether or not as a sole or main residence)—
(a) by a single person or by people living together as a family; or
(b) by not more than 6 people living together as a single household, including a household where care is provided for residents;
dwellinghouse 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;
flat means a dwelling on one storey forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally;
house 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;
internal linings means the materials lining any partition, wall, ceiling or other internal structure;
maisonette means a dwelling on more than one storey forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally;
means 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;
office includes premises used for the purposes of administration; clerical work; handling money; and communications;
place of safety means a place, outside the building, in which people are in no danger from fire within the building;
residential health care building includes nursing homes; homes for old people, children, mentally ill and the mentally or physically handicapped;
shopping complex means a shopping complex that includes a covered mall or similar area in which—
(a) more than 15 m of the length of the mall section is covered by a bridge or roof; or
(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
spectator accommodation means covered seating accommodation at sports grounds.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/389/regulation/E1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-E1
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