{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2179",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Resistance to transmission of sound",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), every wall which separates a dwelling from another building and, in the case of a dwelling forming part of a building, every wall and floor which separates the dwelling from another part of the building shall provide adequate resistance to transmission of airborne sound.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a wall between a dwelling and any area which is open to the external air.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2179/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:58:22.753789+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."
}