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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-amendment-regulations-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/218",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-amendment-regulations-2015",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (“the 2004 Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations with effect from 9th July 2015 to provide that standard 6.9 (which requires an energy performance certificate to be displayed in a prominent place within certain buildings) applies to public buildings with a floor area of more than 250 square metres, in implementation of Article 13 of Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19th May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings (recast) (OJ L 153, 18.6.2010 p.13).\nRegulation 3 amends Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations with effect from 1st October 2015 to remove paragraph (c) from the limitation to standard 6.3. This is subject to the transitional provisions in regulation 4.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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