{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-fire-safety-wales-measure-2011-commencement-no-1-order-2013/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-fire-safety-wales-measure-2011-commencement-no-1-order-2013/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2013/2727",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Fire Safety (Wales) Measure 2011 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-fire-safety-wales-measure-2011-commencement-no-1-order-2013",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed Day",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Measure come into force on the appointed day subject to paragraph (3)—\n(a) sections 1(1) to (3);\n(b) section 1(4) for all remaining purposes; and\n(c) section 1(5).\n(2) The appointed day is—\n(a) 30 April 2014 in relation to:\n(i) care homes;\n(ii) children’s homes;\n(iii) halls of residence;\n(iv) rooms for residential purposes; and\n(b) 1 January 2016 in relation to:\n(i) dwelling-houses;\n(ii) flats.\n(3) Paragraph (1) does not commence provisions of the Measure in relation to buildings which are—\n(a) listed in accordance with section 1 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990;\n(b) in a conservation area designated in accordance with section 69 of that Act;\n(c) included in the schedule of monuments maintained under section 1 of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979;\n(d) excepted energy buildings; or\n(e) temporary buildings that is to say buildings with a planned time of use of two years or less.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 (c. 9)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1979 (c. 46). Section 1 was amended by Schedule 4 to the National Heritage Act 1983 (c. 47)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/2727/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:08.678004+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."
}