2002 No. 40
BUILDING AND BUILDINGS

The Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001 Amendment Regulations 2002

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3, 24(1)(b) and 29(1) of, and Schedule 4 to, the Building (Scotland) Act 19591 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf and, as required by section 3(6) of that Act2, 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:

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001 Amendment Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 3rd March 2002.

Amendment of Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 20012.

After regulation 3 (transitional provisions) of the Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 20013 there shall be inserted the following regulation:–

“4.

In relation to the construction of a conservatory, the contract for which was entered into prior to the date of the coming into force of these Regulations, the building standards regulations applicable to the conservatory shall be those in force at the time the contract was entered into and any reference in the Building (Scotland) Act 1959 to building standards regulations shall be construed accordingly, notwithstanding that the construction is carried out on or after the date of the coming into force of these Regulations.

Provided that this regulation shall only apply where construction is commenced on or before 31st May 2002 and completed on or before 1st July 2002.”.

IAIN GRAY
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make amendments to the transitional provisions of the Building Standards (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001 (“the 2001 Regulations”). They provide that the 2001 Regulations shall not apply to conservatories where the contract has been entered into before those Regulations come into force on 4th March 2002 providing that the construction work begins on or before 31st May 2002 and is completed on or before 1st July 2002.