{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-certificates-special-premises-regulations-northern-ireland-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-certificates-special-premises-regulations-northern-ireland-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1991/446",
  "legislation_title": "Fire Certificates (Special Premises) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-certificates-special-premises-regulations-northern-ireland-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations —\n“the Department” means the Department of Economic Development;\n“fire certificate” means a certificate issued under these Regulations by the Department;\n“Fire Services Order Certificate” means a fire certificate issued under the Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 and includes a certificate deemed to have been so issued by Article 53(2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 4 to, that Order;\n“responsible person” in relation to any premises means the person having control of those premises, whether as occupier or otherwise, in connection with the carrying on by him of a trade, business or other undertaking (whether for profit or not) except that in the case of a mine within the meaning of the Mines Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 the responsible person shall be the manager of that mine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/1821 (N.I. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1969 c. 6 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/150",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Safety (Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1991/446/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:00:13.273700+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."
}