{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2025/312",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "text": "(1) The Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 8 (fitness and durability of materials and workmanship)—\n(a) in paragraph (3) for “BS EN 13501-1:2018 entitled “Fire classification of construction products and building elements. Classification using testing data from reaction to fire tests” published by the British Standards Institution” substitute “the reaction to fire classification”,\n(b) after paragraph (4)(j) insert—\n“(k) components associated with a solar shading device excluding components whose primary function is to provide shade or deflect sunlight such as the awning curtain or slats,\n(l) materials which form the top horizontal floor layer of a balcony which are of European Classification A1fl or A2fl-s1 (classified in accordance with the reaction to fire classification) provided that the entire layer has an imperforate substrate under it.”,\n(c) in paragraph (6)—\n(i) after the definition of “highly combustible metal composite material” insert—\n““reaction to fire classification” means BS EN 13501-1:2018 entitled “Fire classification of construction products and building elements. Classification using data from reaction to fire tests.” published by the British Standards Institution in 2019,”,\n(ii) in in the definition of “relevant building” after paragraph (e) insert—\n“(f) a hotel, guest house, boarding house or hostel,”,\n(iii) after the definition of “relevant building” insert—\n““solar shading” means a device attached to the external surface of an external wall for reducing heat gain within a building by shading or deflecting sunlight,”.\n(3) In schedule 5 (building standards applicable to design and construction)—\n(a) in the limitation to paragraph 2.15 (automatic fire suppression systems) omit “or” immediately preceding paragraph (h) and after paragraph (h) insert—\n“(i) is a traditionally constructed residential building with 15 or more rooms used for sleeping accommodation.”,\n(b) after the limitation to paragraph 2.15 insert—\n“Interpretation of this standard\nIn this standard—\n“traditionally constructed” means constructed by traditional construction methods, using permeable components, that promote the dissipation of moisture from the building fabric.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2004/406; relevant amending instruments are S.S.I. 2013/143, S.S.I. 2020/275 and S.S.I. 2022/136."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/312/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:33:38.177157+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."
}