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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-levy-england-regulations-2025/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-levy-england-regulations-2025/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348273779",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-levy-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "“Residential building” and “relevant residential building”",
  "text": "(1) “Residential building” means a building that—\n(a) is wholly situated in England;\n(b) consists of, or contains—\n(i) one or more dwellings, or\n(ii) one or more bedspaces in purpose-built student accommodation, and\n(c) is not an exempt building.\n(2) Schedule 1 makes provision about the meaning of “exempt building”.\n(3) A residential building is a “relevant residential building”, for the purposes of these Regulations, if it consists of or contains—\n(a) at least one ordinary residential dwelling,\n(b) at least one bedspace in purpose-built student accommodation, or\n(c) communal space for residents.\n(4) In these Regulations—\n(a) references to a residential building include references to a proposed residential building, and\n(b) references to a relevant residential building, apart from the references in regulations 17(2) and 18(2), include references to a proposed relevant residential building.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348273779/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:50.608425+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."
}