{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-premises-general-requirements-and-standards-scotland-regulations-1967/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-premises-general-requirements-and-standards-scotland-regulations-1967/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1967/1199",
  "legislation_title": "The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-premises-general-requirements-and-standards-scotland-regulations-1967",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Lighting",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, in every school building the lighting, both natural and artificial, of each room or other space shall be appropriate to the purpose for which the room or other space is provided.\n(2) In all educational accommodation the level of maintained illumination on the plane at the height of the top of the desk or at such other height from the floor as may be appropriate in the circumstances shall not be less than 108 lux.\n(3) In all teaching spaces the minimum daylight factor on the plane at the height of the top of the desk or at such other height from the floor as may be appropriate in the circumstances, shall be 2 per cent:\nProvided that where lighting is provided by a combination of daylight at less than a 2 per cent factor and a form of permanent supplementary artificial lighting, the daylight factor, the level of maintained illumination and the form of permanent supplementary artificial lighting shall be such as may be suitable in each case, having regard to the normal use of the room.\n(4) In any teaching space no part of any light fitting (or mirrored image thereof) having a maximum luminance greater than 5,100 candela per square metre or an average luminance greater than 3,400 candela per square metre, shall be in such a position as to be visible to any pupil or teacher working in the teaching space in a normal position within an angle at the eye of 135 degrees from the perpendicular from the eye to the floor.\n(5) So much of the light emitted from the light fittings shall illuminate the ceiling and upper parts of the walls as is necessary to prevent excessive contrast between the fittings and their background.\n(6) In all educational accommodation and kitchens, there shall be adequate provision for protection against glare from the sky and the sun.\n(7) In this regulation the words “candela”, “illumination”, “light”, “luminance” and “lux” shall have the meanings attributed to them in Part 4, Group 01, of the Glossary of Electrotechnical, Power, Telecommunication, Electronics, Lighting and Colour Terms, published under the authority of the Executive Board of the British Standards Institution in April 1971.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(2) substituted (1.4.1973) by The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/322), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 21(3) substituted (29.10.1979) by The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/1186), regs. 1(2), 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(4) substituted (1.4.1973) by The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/322), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 21(7) substituted (1.4.1973) by The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/322), regs. 1(2), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 18.8.1967, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1967/1199/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:32:20.145735+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."
}