{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-relevant-works-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-relevant-works-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1653",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Relevant Works) (Scotland) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-relevant-works-scotland-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them:—\n“disabled” means substantially handicapped by illness, injury or congenital deformity;\n“elderly” means a person aged 65 or over;\n“house in a state of serious disrepair” includes a house which, although not in a state of serious disrepair, is in need of repair and likely to deteriorate rapidly or cause material damage to another house, if nothing is done to repair it;\n“improvement”, in relation to a house—\n(a) includes—\n(i) alteration and enlargement;\n(ii) any works of repair or replacement needed for the purpose of enabling the house to attain a good state of repair; and\n(iii) in relation to a house for a disabled owner or occupier, the doing of works required to make it suitable for his accommodation, welfare or employment; but\n(b) does not include works specified in a notice under section 162 of the 1987 Act (which empowers a local authority to require the provision of means of escape in the case of fire in a house in multiple occupation) or works required in connection with works so specified,\nand “improved” shall be construed accordingly;\n“standard amenities” are those amenities set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;\n“tolerable standard” has the meaning set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and\n“the 1987 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1653/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:19:47.659389+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."
}