{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Classification of buildings by purpose",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, buildings or parts thereof shall be classified according to the numbered purpose group or groups and, where applicable, lettered purpose sub-group or sub-groups set out in Schedule 3.\n(2) In the determination of such classification, any use which is ancillary to another use or which is of a minor nature shall be disregarded and the classification shall be that of the principal use or uses.\n(3) Where a building is divided into compartments, nothing in this regulation shall prevent these compartments being independently classified, whether or not the division is required by any provision of these Regulations.\n(4) Where a building or part of a building does not fall into any purpose group or sub-group these Regulations shall have effect as if the more or most onerous standard applicable to any classification applied.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}