{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111063866",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Energy performance certificates on sale or rent",
  "text": "(1) Where a building or building unit is to be sold or let the owner must make a copy of a valid energy performance certificate for the building or building unit and of the related property report available for inspection free of charge to a prospective buyer or a prospective tenant.\n(2) Where a building or building unit is sold or let the owner must provide a copy of a valid energy performance certificate and of the related property report free of charge to the buyer or tenant.\n(3) Any reference in this regulation to the letting of a building or building unit does not include the renewal of an existing lease with the same tenant.\n(4) This regulation does not apply in relation to a building or building unit at any time before the construction of the building or building unit has been completed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111063866/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:21.763821+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."
}