The Act Part 5 – Other Climate Change Provisions Chapter 4 – The Scottish civil estate.Energy performance of buildings procured for the Scottish civil estate.
145.Section 75(1) places a duty on the Scottish Ministers to ensure, in so far as reasonably practicable, that the energy performance of any building that becomes part of the civil estate in Scotland falls within the top quartile of energy performance.
146.Subsection (2) sets out the criteria that determine the circumstances in which a building becomes part of the civil estate in Scotland.
147.Subsection (3) enables the Scottish Ministers to disapply the duty that a building or category of buildings must fall in the top quartile of energy performance by making regulations to that effect. This may be necessary, for example where there is an operational need to locate in a specific area or in rural areas where it is unlikely that there may be any buildings that fall into the top quartile of energy performance.