Regulation 33 Facilities for disabled people

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg.33 revoked by Building Standards and Procedure Amendment 1999 regs.2(15),4
reg.33, head. substituted by Building Standards 1994 reg.2(7)(a)
reg.33(1)(2) substituted by Building Standards 1994 reg.2(7)(b)
reg.33(3) amended by Building Standards 1994 reg.2(7)(c)
reg.33(4)(a)(b) replaced by Building Standards 1994 reg.2(7)(d)

(1)

Subject to paragraph (4), a storey of a building to which this regulation applies and to which storey there is direct access at ground level shall be provided with adequate access for disabled people.

(2)

In every such storey in which sanitary facilities are provided, these facilities shall include adequate provision for disabled people.

(3)

Every such storey which contains fixed seating accommodation for an audience or spectators shall be provided with adequate level spaces for wheelchairs.

(4)

This regulation shall apply to–

(a)

buildings of purpose groups 2 to 6 inclusive; and

(b)

surgeries which form part of a building of purpose group 1,

but shall not apply to a storey or part of a storey which houses only fixed plant or machinery and to which access is required only for maintenance purposes.

(5)

In this regulation “disabled people” means persons with a physical, hearing or sight impairment which affects their mobility or their use of buildings.

(6)

This regulation shall not be subject to specification in a notice served under section 11 of the Act.