1987 No. 1762 (C. 54)

FIRE PRECAUTIONS
SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1987

Made

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 50(2) of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 19871, I hereby make the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1987.

2

The provisions of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 specified in the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

Douglas HurdOne of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office

SCHEDULEPROVISIONS OF THE FIRE SAFETY AND SAFETY OF PLACES OF SPORT ACT 1987 COMING INTO FORCE ON 1st JANUARY 1988

Article 2

Provisions of the Act

Subject matter of provisions

In Part I:

Section 3

Charges for fire certification work

Section 4

Means of escape: scope of regulation

Section 8

Duties as regards safety pending determination of applications for fire certificates

Section 9

Special procedure in case of serious risk: prohibition notices

Section 11

Disclosure of information obtained in premises

Section 12

Civil and other liability

Section 13

Removal of exemption for premises used for public religious worship

Section 14

Breaches of fire certificate requirements: restriction of defence

In section 16, subsection (1), subsection (2) to the extent necessary to give effect to the provisions of Schedule 1 specified in this Schedule, and subsection (3)

Special provision for certain premises

Section 17

Extension of power to apply the Fire Precautions Act 19712

In section 18, so much of subsections (1), (2) and (3) as amends section 40 of the Fire Precautions Act 1971 by providing—

  1. a

    that in subsection (1)(a) of that section after “4” there shall be inserted “5(2A)”; and

  2. b

    that in subsection (1)(b) of that section after “8” there shall be inserted “8B” and after “10” there shall be inserted “10B”

Application to the Crown

Part II

Safety of sports grounds

In Part V:

Section 46

Entertainment licences: fees for variation

Section 49, to the extent necessary to give effect to such of the repeals in Schedule 4 and provisions of Schedule 5 as are specified in this Schedule and the Appendix to this Schedule

Repeals and transitional and saving provisions

In section 50, subsections (1), (2) and (3) and so much of subsections (4) to (7) as has effect in relation to Part II of the Act

Short title, commencement and extent

In Schedule 1, Part I of Schedule 2 to the Fire Precautions Act 1971 and, in Part II of Schedule 2 to that Act, in paragraph 3, sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) and so much of sub-paragraph (3) as has effect in relation to the referencesto the occupier in sections 5(2A), 7(3A), 7(4) and 8B(1) of that Act

Fire precautions: special provision for certain premises

Schedule 2

Extension of application of Safety of Sports Grounds Act 19753 to sports grounds

In Schedule 4, so much of the entries as is specified in the Appendix to this Schedule

Repeals

In Schedule 5, paragraphs 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9

Transitional and saving provisions

APPENDIX TO THE SCHEDULEREPEALS TAKING EFFECT ON 1st JANUARY 1988

Chapter

Short title

Extent of repeal

1971 c. 40

Fire Precautions Act 1971

In section 2, the words from “of any of the following” to “any premises” where last occurring

In section 12(1), the words “other than paragraph (d)”

In section 43(1), in the definition of “the court”, the words “and the Schedule thereto”

Section 43(2)

1975 c. 52

Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975

Section 5(4), (6), (7) and (8)

In section 7, in subsection (3), the words “, subject to subsection (4) below,” and subsections (4) and (5)

In section 12(2), the words “stadium or other”Section 15

In section 17(1), the definition of “sports stadium”

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st January 1988 the provisions of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 specified in the Schedule to the Order.