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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-33",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2179",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Facilities for disabled people",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) In every such storey in which sanitary facilities are provided, these facilities shall include adequate provision for disabled people.\n(3) Every such storey which contains fixed seating accommodation for an audience or spectators shall be provided with adequate level spaces for wheelchairs.\n(4) This regulation shall apply to–\n(a) buildings of purpose groups 2 to 6 inclusive; and\n(b) surgeries which form part of a building of purpose group 1,\nbut 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.\n(5) In this regulation “disabled people” means persons with a physical, hearing or sight impairment which affects their mobility or their use of buildings.\n(6) This regulation shall not be subject to specification in a notice served under section 11 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/1999/173",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Standards and Procedure Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 1999"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1266",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
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      "affecting_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
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      "affecting_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
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      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1266",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2179/regulation/33",
    "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."
}