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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1231",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-amendment-regulations-1987",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend Part H (Resistance to the transmission of sound) of the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1981 to 1986. An amendment is also made to regulation Q5(9) on showers to permit the use of a wider range of components which meet British Standard specifications. The Regulations come into force on 21st September 1987, but do not apply to any construction or change of use of a building where application for the warrant was made before that date.\nThe requirements of Part H are re-stated in functional terms with the methods of compliance with the requirements given in a new Schedule 17 to the building standards regulations. Compliance can be achieved either by the use of specified constructions which replace the existing deemed-to-satisfy specifications or by meeting a performance standard which takes account of new British Standards for testing and calculating sound transmission.\nNote: Copies of British Standards and British Standard Codes of Practice referred to in these Regulations may be purchased from the British Standards Institution, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1231/note",
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  "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."
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