# The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025, Regulation 22: Power to require production of energy performance certificate

Extent: S
Status: prospective

(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.
(2) The power conferred by paragraph (1) includes power—
(a) to require the production in a legible documentary form of any energy performance certificate which is held in electronic form, and
(b) to take copies of any energy performance certificate produced for inspection.
(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.
(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.
(5) An owner is not required to comply with the requirement if the owner has a reasonable excuse for not complying.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/417/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/energy-performance-of-buildings-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-22
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