{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-networks-scotland-act-2021/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-networks-scotland-act-2021/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2021/9",
  "legislation_title": "Heat Networks (Scotland) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heat-networks-scotland-act-2021",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Building assessment reports",
  "text": "(1) A relevant person must prepare reports in relation to each non-domestic building in which the person has an interest.\n(2) A report prepared under subsection (1) (a “building assessment report”) must set out, in relation to each non-domestic building covered by the report, an assessment of—\n(a) the potential for the non-domestic building to be supplied with thermal energy by means of a heat network,\n(b) the period for which any system providing thermal energy to the non-domestic building is expected to continue to operate effectively and efficiently.\n(3) A building assessment report must—\n(a) be prepared in the manner as may be specified, and\n(b) at such intervals as may be specified.\n(4) For the purposes of this section—\n(a) a relevant person has an interest in a non-domestic building if—\n(i) the relevant person has a right of ownership in the non-domestic building,\n(ii) the relevant person has such other interest in the non-domestic building as may be specified,\n(b) where more than one relevant person has a right of ownership, or other interest as may be specified by regulations under paragraph (a)(ii), in a non-domestic building, a building assessment report must be prepared by one of those persons.\n(5) In this section, “specified” means specified in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 63 in force at 16.1.2023 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2022/376, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 63 in force at 30.5.2023 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2023/148, reg. 2(1)(2)(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/9/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:35.042523+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."
}