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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-5/paragraph-6.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-5/paragraph-6.3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/406",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/6.3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6.3",
  "heading": "Heating system",
  "text": "Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that the heating and hot water service systems installed are energy efficient and are capable of being controlled to achieve optimum energy efficiency.\nLimitation\nThis standard does not apply to–\n(a) buildings which do not use fuel or power for controlling the temperature of the internal environment;\n(b) heating provided solely for the purpose of frost protection; ...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "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": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 6.3 omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/218), regs. 1(3), 3(2) (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "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",
      "affecting": "ssi/2025/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/406/schedule/5/paragraph/6.3",
    "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."
}