The Fire Services (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (repealed)

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1993 No. 1578 — creates 8 criminal offences.

Made

23 June 1993

In force from

Not determined

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Miscellaneous

Made under

Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order makes miscellaneous amendments to the Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 relating to fire precautions. The principal amendments concern— a exemptions from requirement to have fire certificates (Articles 6 and 7); b charges for fire certification work (Article 8); c codes of practice as to means of escape and for fighting fire and improvement notices (Article 9); d safety pending determination of applications for fire certificates (Articles 10 and 11); e prohibition notices in cases of serious risk (Article 12); f inspections of premises (Article 13); g removal of exemption for premises used for public religious worship (Article 16); and h functions of the Department of the Environment with respect to fire safety and vehicles for emergency fire fighting (Article 21).

Offences created by this instrument

• Duties as regards safety pending determination of applications for fire certificates article 10(2)(a) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Special procedure in case of serious risk: prohibition notices article 12 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Change of conditions affecting premises for which exemption has been granted article 29A(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Duty as to means of escape and for fighting fire article 31(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• It is an offence for a person to contravene any requirement imposed by an improvement notice article 31E(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• It shall be an offence for any person to contravene any prohibition or restriction imposed by a prohibition notice article 33B(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Exemption from requirement to have fire certificate: supplementary article 7(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Provision as to offences 31E 1 It is an offence for a person to contravene any requirement imposed by an improvement… article 9(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

Check the source

• This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
• Other instruments from 1993