{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-R1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-R1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/389",
  "legislation_title": "Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/R1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "R1",
  "heading": "Application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) this Part shall apply to any building or part of a building.\n(2) This Part shall not apply to—\n(a) any garage or outbuilding associated with a dwelling;\n(b) any part of a building which is used solely to enable the building or any service or fitting in the building to be inspected, maintained or repaired; and\n(c) the alteration or extension of an existing dwelling to which this Part did not apply when the dwelling was erected other than where the alteration or extension affects a facility suitable for use by disabled people, in the existing building.\n(3) The requirements of regulation R4 shall not apply to a dwelling.\n(4) In this Part—\ndisabled people means people who have—\n(a) an impairment which limits their ability to walk or which requires them to use a wheelchair for mobility; or\n(b) impaired hearing or sight;\ndwelling means a house, flat, maisonette and any purpose built student living accommodation which is comprised of self-contained units of accommodation;\nentrance storey in a dwelling means the storey which contains the principal entrance for the dwelling;\nprincipal entrance in relation to a dwelling means the entrance a visitor (not familiar with the dwelling) will normally expect to use to enter it;\nprincipal storey in a dwelling means the storey nearest to the entrance storey which contains a habitable room, or if there are two such storeys equally near, either such storey;\nsanitary accommodation has the meaning assigned to it by regulation P1; and\nsanitary convenience means a water closet and a wash-hand basin.",
  "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/R1",
    "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."
}