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Fire Safety Act 2021

2021 CHAPTER 24

An Act to make provision about the application of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 where a building contains two or more sets of domestic premises; and to confer power to amend that order in future for the purposes of changing the premises to which it applies. [29th April 2021]

 

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1Premises to which the Fire Safety Order applies

In article 6 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1541) (application to premises)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(a) (excluded premises), after “except to the extent mentioned in” insert “paragraph (1A) or”;

(b) after paragraph (1) insert—

“(1A) Where a building contains two or more sets of domestic premises, the things to which this order applies include—

(a) the building’s structure and external walls and any common parts;

(b) all doors between the domestic premises and common parts (so far as not falling within sub-paragraph (a)).

(1B) The reference to external walls includes—

(a) doors or windows in those walls, and

(b) anything attached to the exterior of those walls (including balconies).”;

(c) in paragraph (2), for “paragraph” substitute “provisions”.