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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-standards-scotland-regulations-1990/schedule-3",
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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": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS BY PURPOSE",
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nPurpose group and descriptive title\nPurpose sub-group, where applicable\nDescription of purpose or form of building\n*Includes any surgeries, consulting rooms, offices or other accommodation not exceeding in the aggregate 50 square metres forming part of a dwelling and used by an occupant of the dwelling in a professional or business capacity.\n**Warehousing excludes self-selection wholesale trading included in purpose group 4.\n***For the purpose of this description “open-sided” means naturally ventilated to provide an adequate supply of air in accordance with regulation 23.\n1 Dwellings\n1A\nFlats and maisonettes\n1B\nHouses containing a habitable storey at a height exceeding 4.5 metres\n1C\nHouses not containing a habitable storey at a height exceeding 4.5 metres\n2 Institutional and other residential\n2A\nResidential accommodation, other than dwellings, for old people or children or for the treatment, care or maintenance of persons suffering from illness or mental or physical disability or handicap\n2B\nAny other building, other than a dwelling, containing sleeping accommodation\n3 Offices\nOffices or premises used for office, administrative or clerical purposes (including writing, book-keeping, sorting papers, filing, typing, duplicating, machine calculating, police and fire service work, drawing and the editorial preparation of work for publication), financial transactions (including banking and building society work) and communications (including postal, telegraph and radio, television, film, audio or video recording or performance (not open to the public), communication or control)\n4 Shops and Commercial\nShops or premises used for retail or wholesale trade or business, including sales by auction, self-selection an d over-the-counter wholesale trading, hairdressing and beauty or body care and premises to which members of the public are invited to resort for the purpose of delivering or uplifting goods in connection with their cleaning, repair, hire or other treatment or (except in the case of the repair of motor vehicles) of themselves carrying out such cleaning, repair or other treatment\n5 Assembly and recreational\n5A\nPlaces of entertainment and recreation other than sports stadia, including bingo halls, broadcasting, recording and film studios open to the public, casinos, dance halls, entertainment, conference, exhibition and leisure centres (except where consisting predominantly of a swimming pool), funfairs and amusement arcades, licensed betting offices, museums and art galleries, non-residential clubs, public houses, restaurants, cafes, snack bars, theatres, cinemas and concert halls\n5B\nAny other places of assembly, including swimming pool buildings, churches and other places of worship, crematoria, dancing schools, educational establishments, gymnasia, law courts, libraries open to the public, non-residential day centres, clinics, health centres and surgeries, passenger stations and termini for air, rail, road or sea travel, public toilets, riding schools, ice rinks, sports pavilions, sports stadia, zoos and menageries\n6 Industrial\n6A\nManufacturing, processing, repairing, cleaning, washing, breaking up or otherwise treating any substance comprising or used in association with–\nadhesives\nasphalt and bituminous products\nchemical and allied industries\ncleaners and solvents\nclothing and footwear (excluding laundering)\ncoal and petroleum products\ncork products\ndry cleaning\ndye-stuffs and pigments\nfertilisers\ngrains and cereals\ninks\ninsulated wires and cables\nleather, sheepskin and fur\nlinoleum\nmagnetic tape\noils and greases\npaints\npaper, printing and publishing (excluding paper manufacturing)\npharmaceutical products\nphotographic materials and products\nplastics\npolishes\nrubber and synthetic rubber\nsoaps and detergents\nspirit distilling\nsurgical bandages and plasters\nsynthetic resins\ntextiles\ntimber, joinery, furniture, brushes and brooms\ntoilet preparations\nupholstery\nweedkillers and pesticides\n6B\nAny other industrial building including buildings used for generating or supplying power or slaughtering livestock\n7 Storage and warehousing\n7A\nStorage of hazardous goods or materials, and storage of vehicles containing hazardous goods or materials, including–\ni. any compressed, liquefied or dissolved gas;\nii. any substance which becomes dangerous by interaction with either water or air;\niii. any liquid substance with a flash point below 65 Celsius including whisky or other spirituous liquor;\niv. any corrosive substance;\nv. any substance capable of emitting poisonous fumes;\nvi. any oxidising agent;\nvii. any substance liable to spontaneous combustion;\nviii. any substance that changes or decomposes readily giving out heat when doing so;\nix. any combustible solid substance with a flash point less than 120 Celsius;\nx. any substance likely to spread fire by flowing from one part of a building to another\n7B\nStorage of any other goods or materials, and car parks and parking garages not coming within purpose sub-group 7A or 7C\n7C\nOpen-sided car parks and parking garages, designed to admit or accommodate only passenger or light goods vehicles not exceeding 2500 kilograms gross mass",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "*Includes any surgeries, consulting rooms, offices or other accommodation not exceeding in the aggregate 50 square metres forming part of a dwelling and used by an occupant of the dwelling in a professional or business capacity."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "**Warehousing excludes self-selection wholesale trading included in purpose group 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "***For the purpose of this description “open-sided” means naturally ventilated to provide an adequate supply of air in accordance with regulation 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt (4.3.2002)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/320",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (4.3.2002)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/320",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2179/schedule/3",
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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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