{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-smoke-and-carbon-monoxide-alarm-england-regulations-2015/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111133439",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-smoke-and-carbon-monoxide-alarm-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Amendments to Schedule 4 to the Housing Act 2004",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Housing Act 2004 (licences under parts 2 and 3: mandatory conditions)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (4)—\n(i) before paragraph (a) insert—\n“(za) where the house is in England—\n(i) to ensure that a smoke alarm is installed on each storey of the house on which there is a room used wholly or partly as living accommodation, and\n(ii) to keep each such alarm in proper working order;”;\n(ii) in paragraph (a), at the beginning insert “where the house is in Wales,”\n(iii) in paragraph (b), at the beginning insert “in either case,”;\n(b) after sub-paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) Where the house is in England, conditions requiring the licence holder—\n(a) to ensure that a carbon monoxide alarm is installed in any room in the house which is used wholly or partly as living accommodation and contains a solid fuel burning combustion appliance;\n(b) to keep any such alarm in proper working order; and\n(c) to supply the authority, on demand, with a declaration by him as to the condition and positioning of any such alarm.”; and\n(c) after sub-paragraph (5) insert—\n“(6) In sub-paragraph (4A) “room” includes a hall or landing.\n(7) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (4) and (4A), a bathroom or lavatory is to be treated as a room used as living accommodation.”\n(2) The amendments made by paragraph (1) apply only to licences granted or renewed on or after 1st October 2015.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111133439/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:09:46.147649+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."
}