# Fire Certificates (Special Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991, Regulation 12: Right of appeal


(1) A person who is aggrieved by—
(a) anything mentioned in a notice served under regulation 4(4) as a step which would have to be taken as a condition of the issue of a fire certificate or by the period allowed by such a notice for the taking of any steps mentioned in it;
(b) a refusal to issue a fire certificate;
(c) the inclusion of anything in, or the omission of anything from, a fire certificate;
(d) a refusal to vary a fire certificate;
(e) anything mentioned in a notice served under regulation 6(4), 7(4) or 8 with respect to any premises as a step which must be taken if the Department is not to become entitled to cancel the fire certificate relating to the premises;
may within 21 days from the relevant date, appeal to the county court in accordance with county court rules, and on any such appeal the court may make such order as it thinks fit.
(2) In this regulation “the relevant date” means —
(a) in the case of a person who was given notice in accordance with these Regulations of the matter by which he is aggrieved, the date on which he was served with that notice (and for this purpose the date on which a certificate was issued or an application deemed to have been refused shall be treated as a date on which the applicant was served with a notice);
(b) in the case of any other person, the date on which the relevant notice, or amended notice, as the case may be, was posted under regulation 5(6).
(3) In any proceedings for an offence of contravening regulation 11 or a requirement of, or condition contained in, a fire certificate at any time during the period between the relevant date and the final determination of an appeal under this regulation, it shall be a defence that the appeal was brought and had not been determined.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1991/446/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fire-certificates-special-premises-regulations-northern-ireland-1991/regulation-12
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