{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-act-2003/schedule-6/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-act-2003/schedule-6/paragraph-22.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/8",
  "legislation_title": "Building (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, in Schedule 9(certificates as to proof of certain routine matters)—\n(a) the entry relating to the Building (Scotland) Act 1959 (c. 24) is repealed,\n(b) at the end, insert the following entry—\n“\nThe Building (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 8)\nSection 8(1) and (2) (prohibition of work for construction or demolition of, or provision of services, fittings or equipment for, building, or conversion of building, without warrant)\nAn officer of a local authority authorised to do so by the authority\nIn relation to a building specified in the certificate, that on a date so specified, the local authority had not—\n(a)granted a warrant under section 9 for the work or, as the case may be, conversion, or\n(b)received a copy of such a warrant granted by a verifier other than the authority\nSection 21(5) (offence of occupying building when no completion certificate has been accepted)\nAn officer of a local authority authorised to do so by the authority\nThat, on a date specified in the certificate, the local authority had not—\n(a)accepted under section 18(1) a completion certificate in respect of construction or conversion in relation to a building so specified,\n(b)received a copy of such a certificate accepted under section 18(1) by a verifier other than the authority, or\n(c)received a copy of a permission for temporary occupation or use of the building so specified granted under section 21(3)\nSection 43(1) (offence of occupying building, following evacuation, without notice from local authority)\nAn officer of a local authority authorised to do so by the authority\nThat, on a date specified in the certificate, the local authority had not given a person notice under section 42(7)\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 22 in force at 1.5.2005 by S.S.I. 2004/404, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/8/schedule/6/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:50.466433+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."
}