{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-relaxation-by-local-authorities-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-relaxation-by-local-authorities-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1872",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Standards (Relaxation by Local Authorities) (Scotland) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-relaxation-by-local-authorities-scotland-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Building Standards (Relaxation by Local Authorities) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st September 1997.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Building (Scotland) Act 1959;\n“the building standards regulations” means the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/2179; amended by S.I. 1993/1457, 1994/1266 and 1996/2251."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1872/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:00:24.535179+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."
}