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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-amendment-regulations-1994/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1266",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-amendment-regulations-1994",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make further amendments to the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1990 by modifying the requirements in relation to construction of buildings consisting of five or more storeys and as to the provision of protective barriers; amending the application of the requirement to provide sanitary facilities; laying down new safety requirements for roof and window access; and extending the requirements for facilities for disabled people, in particular access to the upper floors of buildings. Amendment of the definition of “Technical Standards” at regulation 2(2) provides through the substitute pages dated June 1994 mentioned therein, the means of compliance with these new requirements and gives effect to other minor changes including requiring a suitable means of escape from buildings for disabled people in the event of fire, reducing an onerous width requirement on common stairs in blocks of flats, simplifying requirements for spiral stairs and extending the ran ffige of equivalent standards which, along with any standard or specification named in the Technical Standards, will be deemed in accordance with regulation 9(2) of the 1990 Regulations to satisfy the relevant requirements.\nThe Regulations come into force on 30th June 1994 but do not apply to any construction or change of use of a building where application for warrant was made before that date.\nCopies of the Technical Standards supporting the 1990 Regulations as amended are available from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.\nWhere appropriate, Compliance Cost Assessments of the effect of the revised Technical Standards have been carried out and summaries thereof have been deposited for inspection in the House Libraries.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1266/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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