{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-fire-safety-wales-measure-2011-commencement-no-1-order-2013/note",
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  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis is the first commencement order made under the Domestic Fire Safety (Wales) Measure 2011. It brings section 1 of the Measure fully into force in two stages.\nSection 1 comes into force on 30 April 2014 in relation to care homes, children’s homes, halls of residence, certain types of hostels and boarding houses and on 1 January 2016 in relation to dwelling-houses and flats. Section 1 is not commenced in relation to certain types of building, see Article 2(3).\nSection 1 requires residences to be provided with an automatic fire suppression system when they are completed or when they are first occupied as a residence. Section 1 confers power on the Welsh Ministers to prescribe the requirements with which an automatic fire suppression system must comply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/2727/note",
    "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."
}