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These Regulations may be cited as the Building (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 3rd October 2005.
2 
In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000.
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(1) The principal Regulations shall continue to apply to –
(a) plans deposited or a building notice given in accordance with the principal Regulations before the commencement of these Regulations;
(b) building work carried out in accordance with such plans or such a building notice with or without any departure or deviation therefrom; and
(c) building work completed before the commencement of these Regulations, as if the amendments effected by these Regulations had not been made.
(2) In paragraph (1) –
(a) “building notice” means a notice given under regulation A10(1) of the principal Regulations; and
(b) “building work” has the same meaning as in those Regulations.
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(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.
(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation A2 (Interpretation) after the definition “SAP ENERGY RATING” there shall be inserted the following definition –“
 SCHOOL has the same meaning as in the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;”
(3) In paragraph (2) of regulation E1 (Application and interpretation), in the definition of internal linings, after the word “materials” there shall be inserted the words “or products”.
(4) In paragraph (b) of regulation E3 (Internal fire spread – Linings) after the word “release” there shall be inserted the words “or a low rate of fire growth”.
(5) For Table E of Schedule 5 there shall be substituted the Table set out in the Schedule.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 13th June 2005.
B. Stuart
Assistant Secretary

SCHEDULE
Regulation 4(5)
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Table E
Regulations Buildings Publications Amendments
(1) (2) (3) (4)
E2 Means of escape a dwellinghouse DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: Sections 1 and 6 –
 a flat or maisonette BS 5588-1: 1990; and AMD 7840
   AMD 14988
  DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: Paragraphs 1.34 and 1.35 and Section 6 –
 a hospital or residential health care building Northern Ireland Firecode March 2005
 a house in multiple occupation Section 5 of DOE Circular 12/92 published by Department of the Environment: 1992 –
 a hotel or boarding house Chapters 13 and 14 of the Guide to Fire Precautions in Premises Used as Hotels and Boarding Houses Which Require a Fire Certificate published by Home Office: 1991; and BS 5588-8: 1999 –
   AMD 14992
 an office 
(a) DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999; or AMD 14992
  
(b) BS 5588-11: 1997; and AMD 9838
   AMD 10213
   AMD 14995
  BS 5588-8: 1999 AMD 14992
 a shop 
(a) DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999; or AMD 14992
  
(b) BS 5588-11: 1997; and AMD 9838
   AMD 10213
   AMD 14995
  BS 5588-8: 1999 AMD 14992
 a shopping complex BS 5588-10: 1991; and AMD 14994
  BS 5588-8: 1999 AMD 14992
 an assembly building 
(a) DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999; or AMD 14992
  
(b) BS 5588-6: 1991; and AMD 10212
   AMD 10443
   AMD 14990
  BS 5588-8: 1999 AMD 14992
E2 Means of escape (cont'd) an educational building other than a school 
(a) DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999; or AMD 14992
  
(b) BS 5588-6: 1991: and AMD 10212
   AMD 10443
   AMD 14990
  BS 5588-8: 1999 AMD 14992
 a school DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999 AMD 14992
 spectator accommodation at a sports ground Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds published for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport: 1997; and BS 5588-8: 1999 –
   AMD 14992
 any other non-residential building DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 1 and 6; and BS 5588-8: 1999 AMD 14992
E3 Internal fire spread – Linings any building DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 2 and 6 
E4 Internal fire spread – Structure a shopping complex BS 5588-10: 1991: AMD 14994
  Sections 5 and 6 
 any other building DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 3 and 6 
E5 External fire spread any building DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 4 and 6 
E6 Facilities and access for the Fire Brigade any building DFP Technical Booklet E: 2005: –
  Sections 5 and 6 
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