{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2025/417",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Power to require production of energy performance certificate",
  "text": "(1) An enforcement authority may require an owner who appears to it to be or to have been subject to the duty under regulation 5 in relation to a building or building unit to produce for inspection a copy of the energy performance certificate for that building or building unit.\n(2) The power conferred by paragraph (1) includes power—\n(a) to require the production in a legible documentary form of any energy performance certificate which is held in electronic form, and\n(b) to take copies of any energy performance certificate produced for inspection.\n(3) A requirement under this regulation may not be made more than 6 months after the last day on which the owner concerned appeared to the enforcement authority to be subject to the duty under regulation 5 in relation to the building or building unit.\n(4) An owner subject to a requirement under this regulation must comply with it within the period of 7 days beginning with the day after the day on which it is made.\n(5) An owner is not required to comply with the requirement if the owner has a reasonable excuse for not complying.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 in force at 30.4.2028, see reg. 1(2) (as amended by S.S.I. 2026/223, reg. 3(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2025/417",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/417/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:33:21.858595+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."
}