{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-relaxation-by-local-authorities-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-relaxation-by-local-authorities-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Construction or change of use of particular buildings",
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall apply to an application made under section 4(1)(a) of the Act for a direction dispensing with or relaxing any provision of the building standards regulations in the case of the construction or change of use of a particular building.\n(2) The power to dispense with or relax such a provision shall be exercisable by the local authority instead of by the Secretary of State except where an application for a warrant under section 6 of the Act in respect of the building is referred to the Secretary of State under section 6A of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 4(1) was substituted by the Building (Scotland) Act 1970, section 2(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 6 was amended and section 6A inserted by the Building (Scotland) Act 1970, sections 3 and 4 respectively. Both provisions were also amended by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, Schedule 15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1872/regulation/2",
    "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."
}