(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (“the 2004 Regulations”).
Regulation 2 amends Schedule 5 to the 2004 Regulations with effect from 1st July 2016 to insert new standard 4.14 which requires physical infrastructure for high speed electronic communications networks to be provided with regard to the construction of buildings and the carrying out of major renovation works to buildings, in implementation of Article 8 of Directive 2014/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures to reduce the cost of deploying high-speed electronic communications networks (OJ L 155, 23.5.2014 p.1).
The new standard applies to building work in respect of which an application for a building warrant is made after 31st December 2016.
A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment and transposition note have been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies can be obtained from the Building Standards Division, Directorate for Local Government and Communities, Ground Floor, Denholm House, Almondvale Business Park, Almondvale Way, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 6GA and online at: http://www.gov.scot.bsd.