New Fire Safety Legislation - Warwickshire Web

Does it apply to me?

Are my premises covered by the Fire Safety Order?

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies to any 'premises', including:

Any place
Any workplace
Any vehicle, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft
Any installation on land (including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water)
Any tent or movable structure

However, there are certain exemptions to which the Order does not apply:

Domestic premises
An offshore installation within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Offshore Installation and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration Regulations 1995
A ship, in respect of the normal ship-board activities of a ship's crew which are carried out solely by the crew under the direction of the master
Fields, woods or other land forming part of an agricultural or forestry undertaking but which is not inside a building and is situated away from the undertaking's main building
An aircraft, locomotive or rolling stock, trailer or semi-trailer used as a means of transport or a vehicle for which a licence is in force under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 or a vehicle exempted from duty under that Act
A mine within the meaning of Section 180 of the Mines and Quarries Act 1954, other than any building on the surface at a mine
A borehole site to which the Borehole Sites and Operations Regulations 1995 apply

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