{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-fire-safety-definition-of-residence-wales-order-2013/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-fire-safety-definition-of-residence-wales-order-2013/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2013/2723",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Fire Safety (Definition of Residence) (Wales) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-fire-safety-definition-of-residence-wales-order-2013",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Classes of residential premises",
  "text": "(1) Section 6(1) of the Measure is amended as follows.\n(2) At the appropriate places insert—\n““dwelling-house” (“tŷ annedd”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Building Regulations 2010”;\n““flat” (“fflat”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Building Regulations 2010”;\n(3) In the definition of “residence”—\n(a) for paragraphs (d) and (e) substitute—\n“(d) hall of residence;\n(e) a room or suite of rooms, which is not a dwelling-house or a flat and which is used by one or more persons to live and sleep and includes a room in a hostel or a boarding house, but does not include—\n(i) a room in an hotel;\n(ii) a room in a hostel provided for temporary accommodation to those who are ordinarily resident elsewhere;\n(iii) a room in a hospital or other similar establishment used for patient accommodation;\n(iv) rooms in a prison or young offender institution;\n(v) premises for the accommodation of persons remanded on bail;\n(vi) premises for the accommodation of persons who may be required to reside there by a probation order, or”\n(b) insert after paragraph (e)—\n“(f) children’s home, where “children’s home” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Care Standards Act 2000 but which does not include—\n(i) an institution within the further education sector as defined by section 91(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;\n(ii) an establishment used to accommodate children only for the purposes of any one or more of the following—\n(aa) a holiday;\n(bb) a leisure, sporting, cultural or educational activity;\nso long as no one child is accommodated there for more than 28 days in any twelve month period;\n(iii) a young offender institution, and”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2214, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 (c.14). Section 1 was amended by section 95 and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14); section 18 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 (c. 13). There are amendments to section 91(3) which are not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/2723/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:09.399861+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."
}