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Skip to main contentSkip to navigationlegislation.gov.ukThe National ArchivesHelpSite MapAccessibilityContact UsCymraegHomeAbout UsBrowse LegislationNew LegislationChanges To LegislationSearch LegislationSearch LegislationTitle: (or keywords in the title)Year:Number:Type:All Legislation (excluding draft)All Primary Legislation UK Public General Acts UK Local Acts Acts of the Scottish Parliament Acts of the National Assembly for Wales Measures of the National Assembly for Wales Church Measures Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly Acts of the Old Scottish Parliament Acts of the English Parliament Acts of the Old Irish Parliament Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain Northern Ireland Orders in Council Measures of the Northern Ireland Assembly Acts of the Northern Ireland ParliamentAll Secondary Legislation UK Statutory Instruments Wales Statutory Instruments Scottish Statutory Instruments Northern Ireland Statutory Rules Church Instruments UK Ministerial Orders UK Statutory Rules and OrdersAll Draft Legislation UK Draft Statutory Instruments Scottish Draft Statutory Instruments Northern Ireland Draft Statutory RulesAll Impact Assessments UK Impact AssessmentsSearchAdvanced SearchBuilding (Scotland) Act 2003You are here:2003 asp 8Whole Act without SchedulesTable of ContentsContentExplanatory NotesMore ResourcesPrevious: IntroductionNext: SchedulePlain ViewPrint OptionsWhat VersionLatest available (Revised)Original (As enacted)Advanced FeaturesShow Explanatory Notes for Sections Opening OptionsOpen whole ActOpen Act without schedulesOpen Schedules onlyMore ResourcesOriginal Print PDFView moreStatus:This is the original version (as it was originally enacted).Part 1Building regulationsPower to make building regulations1Building regulations(1)The Scottish Ministers may, for any of the purposes of—
2Continuing requirements(1)Building regulations may impose on owners of buildings to which such regulations apply such continuing requirements as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate for securing that the purposes of any designated provision of the regulations are not frustrated.
Relaxation of building regulations3Relaxation of building regulations(1)This section applies where the Scottish Ministers consider that it is unreasonable that any provision of building regulations which would, apart from this section, apply in relation to any building or description of building should so apply, or should so apply without relaxation.
Guidance documents4Guidance documents for purposes of building regulations(1)The Scottish Ministers may issue guidance documents for the purpose of providing practical guidance with respect to the requirements of any provision of building regulations and may issue revisions of the whole or any part of any guidance document.
5Compliance with guidance documents(1)Failure to comply with a guidance document does not render a person liable to civil or criminal proceedings.
Building standards assessments6Building standards assessments(1)A local authority must, if requested to do so by the owner of a building, carry out a building standards assessment.
Part 2Approval of construction work etc.Verifiers and certifiers7Verifiers and certifiers(1)For the purposes of this Act the Scottish Ministers may appoint persons (whether individuals or bodies corporate or unincorporate and including public bodies and office-holders) as—
Building warrants8Building warrants(1)A warrant granted under section 9 (a “building warrant”) is required for—
9Building warrants: grant and amendment(1)A verifier must, on an application for a building warrant made to it, grant a building warrant if, but only if, it is satisfied as to the matters specified in subsection (2).
10Building warrants: extension, alteration and conversion(1)Despite section 9, a verifier must refuse to grant a building warrant (or an amendment to the terms of a warrant) under that section if the application relates to an extension to a building or alteration or conversion of all or part of a building and subsection (2) or (3) of this section is satisfied.
11Building warrants: certification of design(1)On making an application under section 9 for a building warrant or for amendment of a warrant, the applicant may submit to the verifier a certificate issued by an approved certifier of design certifying (either or both)—
12Building warrants: reference to Ministers(1)Where, in relation to an application under section 9 for a building warrant, the verifier or the applicant considers that there is doubt about—
13Building warrants: further provisions(1)A building warrant is subject to the following conditions—
14Building warrants: limited life buildings(1)In relation to a building to be constructed in accordance with any special provisions of building regulations made by virtue of paragraph 3 of schedule 1—
15Building warrants: late applicationsWhere work for which a building warrant is required under section 8 has commenced without a warrant, an application under section 9 for a warrant may be made at any time before a completion certificate has been accepted in respect of the building in question.
16Applications and grants: offences(1)Any person who—
Completion certificates17Completion certificates(1)After the completion of the work or conversion in respect of which a building warrant has been granted, the relevant person must submit to the verifier a completion certificate certifying the matters specified in subsection (2).
18Completion certificates: acceptance and rejection(1)A verifier must accept or reject a completion certificate submitted to it under this Act.
19Completion certificates: certification of construction(1)On submitting a completion certificate to a verifier under this Act, the person submitting the completion certificate may submit to the verifier a certificate issued by an approved certifier of construction certifying in relation to the building in question that such construction as is specified in the certificate complies with building regulations.
20Completion certificates: offences(1)Any person who, under this Act—
21Occupation or use without completion certificates(1)This section applies to a building which is being, or has been, constructed or converted—
Imposition of continuing requirements by verifiers22Imposition of continuing requirements by verifiers(1)Subsection (2) applies where a verifier—
23Discharge and variation of continuing requirements imposed by verifiers(1)A verifier must—
Building standards registers24Building standards registers(1)Every local authority must keep a register (a “building standards register”) for the area of the authority containing information in relation to—
Part 3Compliance and enforcement25Building regulations compliance(1)This section applies where the Scottish Ministers consider that, for any of the purposes of—
26Continuing requirement enforcement notices(1)This section applies where it appears to a local authority that the owner of a building is failing to comply with a continuing requirement imposed on the owner—
27Building warrant enforcement notices(1)This section applies where it appears to a local authority that—
Part 4Defective and dangerous buildings28Defective buildings(1)A local authority may serve on the owner of a building a notice (a “defective building notice”) requiring the owner to rectify such defects in the building as the notice may specify.
29Dangerous buildings(1)This section applies where it appears to a local authority that a building (a “dangerous building”) constitutes a danger to persons in or about it or to the public generally or to adjacent buildings or places.
30Dangerous building notices(1)The work to be specified in a dangerous building notice is the work for the repair, securing or demolition of the dangerous building which the local authority considers necessary to remove the danger.
Part 5GeneralBuilding Standards Advisory Committee31Building Standards Advisory Committee(1)There is to continue to be a committee, to be known as the Building Standards Advisory Committee, for the purpose of—
(a)advising the Scottish Ministers on the exercise of their functions under this Act,
(b)keeping under review the operation of regulations under this Act and making recommendations to the Scottish Ministers in connection with the regulations, and
(c)advising the Scottish Ministers on any question relating to their functions under this Act which they may refer to the committee.
(2)The members of the committee are to be appointed by the Scottish Ministers after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of the interests concerned.
(a)as to the constitution and procedure of the committee,
(b)requiring the committee to submit to them reports as to the exercise of its functions.
(4)The Scottish Ministers may pay—
(a)to the members of the committee—
(i)such remuneration, and
(ii)such allowances in respect of expenses properly incurred in the performance of their duties,
(b)to persons attending meetings of the committee at the committee’s request, such allowances in respect of expenses properly incurred in connection with such attendance,
Functions of Ministers, local authorities, verifiers and certifiers32Exercise of local authority functions(1)The Scottish Ministers may give local authorities directions of a general or specific character as to the exercise of their functions under this Act.
33Procedure regulations(1)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations (“procedure regulations”) make provision as to—
34Reports and information(1)Every local authority, verifier and certifier must provide the Scottish Ministers with such reports and information as the Scottish Ministers may require in relation to the functions of the authority, verifier or certifier under this Act.
Scheduled monuments, listed buildings etc.35Scheduled monuments, listed buildings etc.(1)This section applies to a building which is—
Documents36Forms(1)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision as to the form and content of any application, warrant, certificate, notice or document authorised or required to be used under or for the purposes of this Act.
37Service of notices etc.(1)Where a local authority serves on any person a notice under any of sections 25 to 29, it must—
Fees and charges38Fees and chargesThe Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision for the charging of fees and other charges by the Scottish Ministers, local authorities and verifiers in respect of the performance of functions under this Act.
Entry, inspection and tests39Powers of entry, inspection and testing(1)For the purposes of the exercise of their functions under section 3, the Scottish Ministers may exercise the powers specified in subsection (2).
40Work required by notice: right of entry(1)This section applies where a person is required by a building regulations compliance notice, a continuing requirement enforcement notice, a building warrant enforcement notice, a defective building notice or a dangerous building notice to carry out any work (including demolition) in relation to a building.
41Tests of materials(1)The Scottish Ministers may require any person who has made an application to them under section 3(2) to carry out a materials test.
Evacuation of buildings42Evacuation of buildings(1)Where a local authority considers that the occupants of a dangerous building or any adjacent building are endangered by the state of the dangerous building, the authority must require those occupants to remove immediately from the building in question.
43Unlawful occupation of evacuated buildings(1)Any person who—
Execution of work44Expenses(1)Subsection (2) applies where a local authority serves on a person a demand for payment of expenses incurred by the authority in carrying out work in relation to a building under section 25(7)(b), 26(3)(b), 27(7)(b), 28(10)(b), 29(2) or (3) or 30(4)(b).
(b)that the total amount of the funds, rents and other assets in the person’s hands in that capacity since the date of the service of the demand is insufficient to discharge the whole demand,
45Compulsory purchase where owner cannot be found(1)This section applies where—
46Sale of materials from demolished buildings(1)If a building is demolished by a local authority under section 27(7)(b), 29(2) or (3) or 30(4)(b), the authority may sell any building material arising from the demolition.
Appeals47Appeals(1)This subsection applies to—
Offences and liability48Penalties for offences(1)Subsection (2) applies to an offence under any provision of this Act other than sections 14(6), 21(5), 37(4), 39(6) and 43(1).
49Offences by bodies corporate etc.(1)Where an offence under this Act which has been committed by a body corporate other than a local authority is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of—
50Criminal liability of trustees etc.In proceedings for an offence under Part 3 or 4, it is a defence for a person to prove that, at the date of service of the notice in question—
51Civil liability(1)Subject to this section, breach of a duty imposed by building regulations, so far as it causes damage, is actionable, except in so far as the regulations otherwise provide.
Inquiries52Inquiries(1)The Scottish Ministers may, for the purpose of any of their functions under this Act, direct the holding of such public inquiries as they think fit.
Crown application53Crown application(1)This Act binds the Crown.
Orders and regulations54Orders and regulations(1)Any power of the Scottish Ministers to make orders or regulations under this Act is exercisable by statutory instrument.
Interpretation55Meaning of “building”(1)In this Act “building” means any structure or erection, whether temporary or permanent, other than a structure or erection to which subsection (2) applies.
56Interpretation(1)In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
Part 6Supplementary57Ancillary provisionThe Scottish Ministers may by order make such incidental, supplemental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as they consider necessary or expedient for the purposes or in consequence of this Act.
58Modification of enactmentsSchedule 6 makes modifications of enactments in consequence of this Act.
59Commencement and short title(1)The provisions of this Act, except sections 54 and 57 and this section, come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by order appoint.