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

Statutory Instruments

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

6th October 1987

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 50(2) of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987(1), 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 Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office

6th October 1987

Article 2

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

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 1971(2)
In section 18, so much of subsections (1), (2) and (3) as amends section 40 of the Fire Precautions Act 1971 by providing— (a) that in subsection (1)(a) of that section after “4” there shall be inserted “5(2A)”; and (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 1975(3) 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 SCHEDULE REPEALS 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”

Explanatory Note

(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.

(1)

1987 c. 27.

(2)

1971 c. 40.

(3)

1975 c. 52.