The Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 No. 136

PART 3 S Amendment of the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004 on [F1 1 February 2023]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Pt. 3 heading substituted (30.11.2022) by The Building (Scotland) Amendment (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/340), regs. 1, 2(3)

Amendment of regulation 2 – interpretation S

8.  In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) after the definition of “different occupation” insert—

““direct emission heating system”, in relation to a building, means a system (other than a heat network) by which the building is heated or is cooled, or by which hot water is made available in the building, which uses thermal energy produced by a source of production which—

(a)

is located within the building, or curtilage of the building, and

(b)

during normal operation produces greenhouse gas emissions at the point of production of that thermal energy,”,

(b) after the definition of “flat” insert—

““greenhouse gas” has the same meaning as in section 10 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009(1),

“heat network” and “thermal energy” have the same meaning as in section 1 of the Heat Networks (Scotland) Act 2021(2),”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 8 in force at 1.2.2023, see reg. 1(3) (as amended by S.S.I. 2022/340, reg. 2)

(1)

2009 asp 12.

(2)

2021 asp 9.