{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/406",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Continuing requirements",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the owners of buildings shall ensure that–\n(a) accessible parts of every air-conditioning system within a building are inspected at regular intervals not exceeding five years; and\n(b) following each inspection of that system the owner of the building or, where the owner is not the occupier, the occupier is given a report containing the result of the inspection and including recommendations for the cost-effective improvement of the energy performance of that system.\n(2) This regulation shall not apply to–\n(a) air conditioning systems with a total effective output rating of less than 12 kW; or\n(b) air conditioning systems solely for processes within a building.\n(3) In terms of section 2 of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 the provisions of paragraph (1) are a designated provision in respect of which there is a continuing requirement imposed on the owners of buildings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 inserted (1.5.2007) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/534), regs. 1, 2(b) (with regs. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 17(1)(a) substituted (13.3.2016) by The Building (Energy Performance of Buildings) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/71), regs. 1(3), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 17(1)(b) substituted (9.1.2013) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/209), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/406/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:41.303941+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."
}