fire certificate

The building had recently received a new fire certificate.

Investigators found that the fire certificate had expired in June, 2012.

Fire certificates are required for certain kinds of premises, including many hotels.

These powers included the power to charge for the issue of a Fire Certificate.

The requirement for businesses to have fire certificates has been abolished and any previously held are no longer valid.

It also brought in exemptions from the requirement to have a fire certificate in certain small premises.

Then he subsequently moved one person from the ground floor onto the first floor, which meant that he did require a fire certificate.

These regulations were brought in to require premises having over a threshold quantity or using certain of named hazardous substances to possess a fire certificate.

The Act required that the factory owner have a 'plan of escape' in case of fire and brought in the first rudimentary fire certificates.

Mr Smith said: 'I had no alternative in the interests of public safety and in conforming with the conditions of the fire certificate.

The fire certificates were also updated to include not only means of escape but also provision for fighting fire and structural fire separation.

In terms of nursing homes, we don't issue fire certificates anyway, we only issue certificates to offices, shops, building premises because they were under the Act, Hotels and Factories.

Sections 40 to 52 applied to fire safety and were repealed in 1976 when the Fire Precautions Act 1971 was extended to require fire certificates for a wide class of works premises.

Dorset Fire Safety Committee senior fire prevention officer Ian Clark said: 'One of the biggest problems with hotels is that they do not maintain the requirements of the Fire Certificate.'

Unfortunately, they did not revoke sections 5 to 9 of the Fire Precautions Act, which required fire certificates; consequently, the legislation now ran in parallel with the Workplace Regulations but secondary to it.

Licensed premises (pubs, clubs, cinemas, theatres) where classed as providing a service, not as shops so did not normally fall within the designated groups in the FPA so some never needed fire certificates.

Two new qualifications, the NEBOSH Fire Certificate and NEBOSH International General Certificate were launched in March 2005.

We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we're actually allowed to charge, and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country.

I wonder if you are able to confirm, or your services are able to confirm, that this building, particularly the Tower Building, satisfies all aspects of health and safety legislation and whether it has a valid fire certificate.

Public authorities charge for various forms of licensing and approval in a broad range of public activities taking place in their area - for example, approving premises for civil marriages, registering childminders, issuing fire certificates, and licensing and registering firearms.

The trouble about that is, it's now enforced upon us and that's official target, we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money, bluntly, otherwise we have to find it elsewhere, so we give them a priority that they wouldn't otherwise have.

Applications should include details about yourself and your premises and be accompanied by a plan of the premises identifying the room(s) to be approved and any other documents that the local authority requests, such as a copy of your current public liability insurance certificate and fire certificate.

Many workplaces require fire certificates and use of premises without a certificate is a crime punishable, on summary conviction in the Magistrates' Court with a £400 fine, and on indictment in the Crown Court with an unlimited fine and up to two years' imprisonment.

If anybody wants a fire certificate and we had a recent case where a notable local solicitor asked us to issue a fire certificate and we refused, because his premises does not require one, or did not at that point require a fire certificate.