Scottish Statutory Instrument 2025 Scotland

The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025

At a glance

What's here

5 compliance obligations

Who this Act binds

Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.

  • Any Person 2
  • Operator 2
  • Trader 1

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What this Act requires

Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.

Schedules

s.sch001

Where the green deal provider knows or has reasonable cause...

  • Include warning about property alterations in green deal report Any Person
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The green deal information in respect of a green deal...

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The date on which the payment period starts and the...

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The amount payable under the green deal plan—

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The rate of interest charged under the green deal plan....

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A statement indicating whether the interest rate charged under the...

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Where, in accordance with regulation 33(b) of the Framework Regulations,...

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The estimated first year savings.

s.sch001

Where the green deal property is a domestic property, a...

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Where the green deal property is a non-domestic property, a...

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In respect of each improvement installed at the green deal...

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A statement advising the person receiving the property report—

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A statement— (a) indicating that improvements have been installed at...

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A statement indicating that— (a) the improvements installed under the...

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A statement indicating that further information is contained in the...

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Where the green deal provider knows or has reasonable cause...

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A statement indicating— (a) that a green deal plan is...

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Where the green deal plan is a regulated consumer credit...

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Where the green deal plan is not a regulated consumer...

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A statement indicating that— (a) the outstanding credit under the...

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Where a term has been included in a green deal...

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The unique reference number assigned to the green deal plan....

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The name of the person who is the green deal...

s.008

Energy performance certificates

  • Ensure your building's Energy Performance Certificate includes all required ratings and information Trader
s.009

Property report

  • Include required energy performance info in property reports Any Person
s.012

Accreditation schemes

  • Energy assessors must join an approved accreditation scheme Operator
s.014

Registration of energy performance data

  • Send energy data to register before issuing EPC or property report Operator
Browse 34 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
s.001

Citation, commencement and extent

s.002

Interpretation

s.003

Meaning of prospective buyer or prospective tenant

s.004

Application of regulations

s.005

Energy performance certificates on sale or rent

s.006

Energy performance certificates on construction

s.007

Advertisement for sale or let of a building or building unit

s.010

Methodology for assessment of energy performance

s.011

Approved organisations

s.013

Display of energy performance certificates

s.015

Fees for entering data onto register

s.016

Disclosures generally

s.017

Disclosure of Documents

s.018

Disclosure of data relating to a particular building or building unit

s.019

Disclosure of bulk access data

s.020

Duty to disclose energy performance data

s.021

Enforcement authorities

s.022

Power to require production of energy performance certificate

s.023

Penalty charge notice for failure to comply with regulation 5

s.024

Penalty charge notices for failure to comply with regulation 6, 7 or 13

s.025

Defence where energy performance certificate unobtainable

s.026

Defence where failure to comply with regulation 7

s.027

Reviews

s.028

Appeal to the sheriff court

s.029

Recovery of penalty charges

s.030

Service of documents

s.031

Offences relating to enforcement officers

s.032

Application to the Crown

s.033

Green deal properties

s.034

Amendment of the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004

s.035

Amendment of the Building (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2004

s.036

Approved organisations and accreditation schemes– transitional provisions

s.037

Revocations

s.038

Saving and transitional provisions

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