{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-act-2003-exemptions-for-defence-and-national-security-order-2009/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-act-2003-exemptions-for-defence-and-national-security-order-2009/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/822",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Scotland) Act 2003 (Exemptions for Defence and National Security) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-act-2003-exemptions-for-defence-and-national-security-order-2009",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exemptions for defence and national security",
  "text": "The provisions of the 2003 Act and any subordinate legislation made under it shall not apply to–\n(a) a building, or work to or in a building, used or to be used for the purposes of national security;\n(b) work to or in a building, carried out for the purposes of national security; or\n(c) a building, or work to or in a building, occupied for the purposes of–\n(i) the Secretary of State for Defence;\n(ii) the Defence Council;\n(iii) any of the armed forces of the Crown;\n(iv) any visiting force as defined in the Visiting Forces Act 1952; or\n(v) any international headquarters or defence organisation designated for the purposes of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 67."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1964 c. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/822/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:13:50.357523+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."
}