{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-5/paragraph-6.7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-5/paragraph-6.7.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/6.7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6.7",
  "heading": "Commissioning building services",
  "text": "Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that energy supply systems , control systems and building services which use fuel or power for heating, lighting, ventilating and cooling the internal environment and heating the water, are commissioned to achieve effective operation and optimum energy efficiency.\nLimitation\nThis standard does not apply to–\n(a) major power plants serving the National Grid;\n(b) the process and emergency lighting components of a building;\n(c) heating provided solely for the purpose of frost protection; or\n(d) energy supply systems used solely for industrial and commercial processes, leisure use and emergency use within a building.",
  "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. 6.7 inserted (1.2.2023) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/136), regs. 1(3), 9(c)(i) (with reg. 11) (as amended by S.S.I. 2022/340, reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sch. 5 para. 6.7 inserted (1.2.2023) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/136), regs. 1(3), 9(c)(ii) (with reg. 11) (as amended by S.S.I. 2022/340, reg. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "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/6.7",
    "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."
}