{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-hazards-in-social-housing-prescribed-requirements-england-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-hazards-in-social-housing-prescribed-requirements-england-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348285611",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-hazards-in-social-housing-prescribed-requirements-england-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 3: meaning of “significant hazard” and “emergency hazard”",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 3 is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (b), for “take steps to make safe as a matter of urgency” substitute “make safe within 15 working days”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (d), omit “take steps to”.\n(3) In paragraph (2)—\n(a) in the opening words, for “paragraph (1)” substitute “this regulation”;\n(b) before the definition of “relevant hazard” insert—\n““excluded fire hazard” means a prescribed hazard where the risk of harm—\n(a) is associated with exposure to uncontrolled fire and associated smoke and fumes, and\n(b) arises from a deficiency in a FSO-regulated part of a building that contains two or more sets of domestic premises (within the meaning given in article 2 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005);\n“FSO-regulated part of a building” means any part of a building to which the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies by virtue of article 6(1A) of that Order;”;\n(c) in the definition of “relevant hazard”, in sub-paragraph (a)—\n(i) in the opening words, after “hazard” insert “that is not an excluded fire hazard”;\n(ii) in paragraph (i), for “growth” substitute “growths or any matter or circumstance referred to in paragraph 2, 3, 14A, 18A, 21, 22, 23, 23A or 29 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (England) Regulations 2005”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 10A(7) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 for the definition of “prescribed hazard”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1541, amended by section 1 of the Fire Safety Act 2021 (c. 24). There are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/3208, amended by S.I. 2026/571."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348285611/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:02.191406+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."
}