{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-5/paragraph-7.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule-5/paragraph-7.2.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/7.2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7.2",
  "heading": "Electric vehicle charging",
  "text": "Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that provision for the charging of electric vehicles is made where car parking spaces are located within the building or the curtilage of the building.\nLimitation\nThis standard does not apply to—\n(a) a non-domestic building where ten or fewer car parking spaces are present within the building or the curtilage of the building,\n(b) alteration to, or extension of a building, other than major renovation works.\nInterpretation of this standard\nIn this standard—\n“building envelope” in relation to a building, means the walls, floor, roof, windows, doors, roof windows and roof-lights,\n“major renovation works” means works for the renovation of a building where ten or more car parking spaces are present within the building or the curtilage of the building and where—\n(a)more than 25% of the surface area of the building envelope undergoes renovation, and\n(b)the works include works to—\n(i)car parking spaces, or\n(ii)the electrical infrastructure of the building or of the car parking spaces.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 7.2 inserted (5.6.2023) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/349), regs. 1, 3 (with reg. 5) (as amended by S.S.I. 2023/65, regs. 1, 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"
    },
    {
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      "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/7.2",
    "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."
}