2012/11/27 Simon Haywood <[email protected]> > ** ** > Because the relevant drawings can only be made available in certain > circumstances, the council cannot publish these on its web-site where > they would be available to anyone. Such action would be unlawful. Full > details of these legislative provisions can be found in Regulations 57 and > 58 of the Building (Procedure) (****Scotland****) Regulations 2004 (SSI > 2004, No 428). >
Thanks you. That is very interesting. The Regulations have been amended since then: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/167/regulation/8/made http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/117/regulation/2/made For example the original regulations prevented a member of the public inspecting a building warrant (unless they were interested in some fairly restricted way) of a residential building (to which is added prisons), as amended anyone can inspect but only certain classes of people may be supplied a copy. I guess its reasonable to interpret that as intending to prevent people from making their own copies - though its a dreadfully obscure way to draft the regulations. The local authority gets to decide its own level of fees: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/508/regulation/8/made So may be more or less reasonable about it. As they eventually admit - its got nothing to do with copyright. -- Francis Davey
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