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Point in time view as at 01/02/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded. Help about Status

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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Building (Scotland) Act 1970 (repealed), Section 3. Help about Changes to Legislation

3 Amendment of s. 6 of Building (Scotland) Act 1959. S

In section 6 of the principal Act (application of building standards regulations etc.), in subsection (8) (under which it is competent for buildings authorities to refuse warrants in certain circumstances), for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—

(b)any buildings authority to refuse to grant a warrant (or an amendment of the terms of a warrant) if the application for it has not been duly made in the prescribed manner, or

(c)any buildings authority to refuse to grant a warrant (or an amendment of the terms of a warrant), where the application relates to an extension to, or alteration of, a building, if they consider—

(i)in the case of a building which at the time of the application conformed to the building standards regulations, that as a direct result of the extension or, as the case may be, the alteration the building as extended or altered will fail to conform to the said regulations, or

(ii)in the case of a building which at the time of the application failed to conform to the building standards regulations, that as a direct result of the extension or, as the case may be, the alteration, the building as extended or altered will fail to conform to the said regulations to a greater degree than that to which it failed to conform at the time of the application.

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C1The text of s. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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