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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-5/paragraph-4.5",
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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/4.5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4.5",
  "heading": "Electrical safety",
  "text": "Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that the electrical installation does not–\n(a) threaten the health and safety of the people in, and around, the building; and\n(b) become a source of fire.\nLimitation\nThis standard does not apply to an electrical installation–\n(a) serving a building or any part of a building to which the Mines and Quarries Act 1954 or the Factories Act 1961 applies; or\n(b) forming part of the works of an undertaker to which regulations for the supply and distribution of electricity made under the Electricity Act 1989 apply.",
  "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": "1954 c. 70, as extended by the Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969 (c. 10), and the Mines Management Act 1971 (c. 20) and as amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1961 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "1989 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2025/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2025/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/406/schedule/5/paragraph/4.5",
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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."
}