{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-premises-general-requirements-and-standards-scotland-regulations-1967/regulation-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Sites for playing fields",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2B) of this regulation every primary school shall have available and in close proximity to it playing fields not less than the area specified in Table IV according to the number of pupils for which the school is designed except where the provisions of regulation 8(4) apply.\nTABLE IV\nNumber of pupils\nArea (Hectares)\n60 or less\n0.1\n61–140\n0.2\n141–315\n0.3\n316–450\n0.4\n451 or more\n0.6\n(2) Every secondary school shall have available to it playing fields not less than the area specified in Table V according to the number of pupils for which the school is designed except where the provisions of regulation 8(4) apply:\nProvided that where the number of pupils is less than 320 the area of the playing fields shall be such as may be approved in each case.\nTABLE V\nNumber of pupils\nArea (Hectares)\n320–500\n1.6\n501–750\n2.4\n751–1,000\n3.2\nEach additional 200 over 1,000\n0.4\n(2A) Every nursery school and every nursery class in a primary school shall have available and in close proximity to it a garden playing space of not less than an area of 9.3 m² per pupil of which a minimum area of 3.7 m² per pupil shall be paved.\n(2B) Paragraph (1) of this regulation in its application to a primary school with a nursery class or classes shall have effect as if for the word “pupils” there were substituted the words “pupils, other than nursery pupils.”\n(3) Every school providing both primary education and secondary education shall have available to it playing fields of an area such as may be approved in each case.\n(4) Where in any case the Secretary of State is satisfied that it is impracticable or would be unreasonable to apply the standards prescribed in this regulation the area of the playing fields shall be such as may be approved.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (1.4.1973) by The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/322), regs. 1(2), 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8 Table 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. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 8 Table 5 substituted (1.4.1973) by The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/322), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2A)(2B) inserted (1.4.1973) by The School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/322), regs. 1(2), 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}