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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/312",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (the “2004 Regulations”) and come into force on 6 April 2026.\nRegulation 2(2) amends regulation 8 of the 2004 Regulations to extend its requirements in respect of external wall cladding systems to hotels, guest houses, boarding houses and hostels. It also amends regulation 8 to exempt certain components associated with a solar shading device and materials which form the top horizontal floor layer of a balcony from such requirements.\nSchedule 6 of the 2004 Regulations applies various building standards to conversions of properties, including the building standard set out in paragraph 2.15 (automatic fire suppression systems) of schedule 5 of the 2004 Regulations. Regulation 2(3) amends paragraph 2.15 of schedule 5 of the 2004 Regulations so that it applies to traditionally constructed residential buildings with 15 or more bedrooms.\nRegulation 3 makes transitional provision so that the changes made by these Regulations will not apply to work which does not require a building warrant and which is either completed before 6 April 2026, or if not completed before that date, where the contract for the work is entered into before 6 April 2026 and the work is completed on or before 6 October 2026.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/312/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:33:38.177157+00:00"
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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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