Explanatory note

These Regulations, which apply only to Scotland, require electrical luminous tube signs, and any other similarly designed equipment or transformers required to raise the voltage of such signs and equipment, to be provided with cut-off switches for use by firefighters in the event of a fire.

Regulations 3 and 4 require such cut-off switches to be suitably located and identified.

Regulation 5 requires that a person proposing to install such apparatus shall give prior notice to the fire authority, showing where the emergency switch is to be located and how it is to be identified. The fire authority may serve a counter-notice prohibiting the use of apparatus where they consider it will be unsafe in the event of fire, and a person aggrieved by such a counter-notice may appeal to the sheriff.

Regulation 6 exempts from the requirement signs installed on premises licensed under the Cinemas Act 1985.

Regulation 8 creates offences for failure to comply with the requirements of the Regulations and prescribes a penalty not exceeding level 3 of the standard scale (currently £400) on summary conviction in respect of each offence.