{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-3/paragraph-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-3/paragraph-23A.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/406",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/23A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A detached single-storey building used for shelter or sleeping in connection with recreation. Except- A dwelling. A building having an area exceeding 30 square metres. A building ancillary to another building. A building within 6 metres of a boundary or of another building. Any wastewater disposal system serving a building of this type. A building containing a gallery or galleries unless the gallery, or where there is more than one gallery, the galleries together, occupy an area not more than—\n(a) 8 square metres; or\n(b) one-half of the area of the room or space in which the gallery is, or galleries are, situated,\nwhichever is the lesser.\nInterpretation of paragraph 23A\nIn paragraph 23A, “gallery” means a raised floor or platform which is open to the room or space into which it projects and is not enclosed below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 1-6 substituted (1.5.2007) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/534), regs. 1, 2(c), sch. (with regs. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 AA heading and para. 23A inserted (1.7.2017) by The Building (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/188), regs. 1, 3(3) (as amended (30.6.2017) by The Building (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/214), regs. 1, 2(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/406/schedule/3/paragraph/23A",
    "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."
}