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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-5/paragraph-3.24",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/406",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/3.24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3.24",
  "heading": "Fuel storage – containment",
  "text": "Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that–\n(a) an oil storage installation, incorporating oil storage tanks used solely to serve a fixed combustion appliance installation providing space heating or cooking facilities in a building, will–\n(i) reduce the risk of oil escaping from the installation;\n(ii) contain any oil spillage likely to contaminate any water supply, groundwater, watercourse, drain or sewer; and\n(iii) permit any spill to be disposed of safely.\n(b) it allows the number of journeys by delivery vehicles to be minimised due to the volume of woody biomass fuel storage.\nLimitation\nThis standard does not apply to portable containers.",
  "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)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2025/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "ssi/2025/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:41.303941+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."
}