The Building Standards and Procedure Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 1999

Scottish Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 173

BUILDING AND BUILDINGS

The Building Standards and Procedure Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 1999

Made

9th December 1999

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

14th December 1999

Coming into force

17th April 2000

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 2(4), 3, 6(1), 24(1)(b) and 29(1) of, and Schedule 4 to, the Building (Scotland) Act 1959(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf and, as required by section 3(6) of that Act(2), having consulted the Building Standards Advisory Committee and such other bodies as appear to them to be representative of the interests concerned, hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

1959 c. 24; section 2(4) was substituted by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Schedule 15, paragraph 3(b); section 3(2) and (3) was amended by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37) (“the 1974 Act”), Schedule 7, paragraph 1(a) and (b) respectively; section 3(4) was amended by the Housing (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 65), section 19(2); section 3(7) was inserted by the 1974 Act, Schedule 7, paragraph 1(c); section 29(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) –see also the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820), Schedule 2, paragraph 29.

(2)

Section 3(6) was substituted by the Building (Scotland) Act 1970 (c. 38), section 1.