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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1996/regulation-33",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1592",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Enforcement in respect of fire",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the fire authority within the meaning of section 43(1) of the Fire Precautions Act 1971 shall be the enforcing authority as regards—\n(a) regulations 19 and 20 insofar as those regulations relate to fire; and\n(b) regulation 21,\nin respect of a construction site which is contained within, or forms part of, premises which are occupied by persons other than those carrying out the construction work or any activity arising from such work.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in respect of any premises of a description specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to the Fire Certificates (Special Premises) Regulations 1976.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/2003; amended by S.I. 1985/1333, S.I. 1987/37 and S.I. 1992/1811."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/1541",
      "affecting_title": "The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) (No. 2) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/3168",
      "affecting_title": "The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (England) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/2929",
      "affecting_title": "The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/344",
      "affecting_title": "The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1592/regulation/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:41:26.063983+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}