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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-scheme-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/570",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-scheme-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part of these Regulations–\n“central heating system” means a system which provides warmth to 2 or more rooms in a dwelling through a series of connected radiators or ducts linked to a central boiler or from a series of electric storage heaters and controlled from one central point;\n“electric storage heater” means–\n(a) a free-standing storage heater;\n(b) an electric fan-assisted storage warm air system;\n(c) an electric wired underfloor heating system, set in solid floors; or\n(d) an electric ceiling heating system;\n“inefficient central heating system” means–\n(a) a central heating system that is unable to deliver a satisfactory heating regime;\n(b) a central heating system that consists of or includes–\n(i) a solid fuel boiler with a seasonal efficiency of less than 55%;\n(ii) a natural gas boiler with a seasonal efficiency of 55% or less;\n(iii) an oil-fired boiler with a seasonal efficiency of less than 65%; or\n(iv) a gravity or semi-gravity solid fuel heating system which was manufactured at least 20 years before the date of application; or\n(c) a central heating system that consists of or includes electric storage heaters which were manufactured at least 20 years before the date of application;\n“partial central heating system” means a system that does not provide warmth to one or more of the following rooms–\n(a) the main living room;\n(b) the main and any second bedroom;\n(c) the main bathroom; and\n(d) the main hallway;\n“satisfactory heating regime” means a temperature of 23°C in a living room and 18°C in all other rooms sustained for at least 16 hours in every period of 24 hours;\n“seasonal efficiency” means the efficiency of a boiler as determined using the 2005 edition of the Government's Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings; and\n“self-contained dwelling” includes any part of a building which is occupied as a separate dwelling.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Published by the Building Research Establishment."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/570/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:07.915055+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."
}