# The Fire Precautions (Sub-surface Railway Stations) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

S.I. 1994/2184 · made 18 August 1994

These Regulations amend the Fire Precautions (Sub-surface Railway Stations) Regulations 1989 so as to add the requirement imposed by regulation 8(3) (flame resistant materials to be used for escalator surfaces) to those from which a fire authority may grant exemption under regulation 12(1); escalators in a station may not, however, at the same time be exempt from the regulation 8(3) requirement and from requirements as to water sprinklers or as to means for detecting fire.

Made under: Fire Precautions Act 1971 (repealed) (Section 12, Section 37, Section 40)

## Introductory text

FIRE PRECAUTIONS
Made 18th August 1994
Laid before Parliament 26th August 1994
Coming into force 1st January 1996
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 12(1), (3) and (4), 37(2) and (3) and 40(1) of the Fire Precautions Act 1971, and having consulted with such persons and bodies of persons as appear to me requisite, I hereby make the following Regulations:

## 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Precautions (Sub-surface Railway Stations) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st January 1996.

## 2 Exemption from requirements

Regulation 12 of the Fire Precautions (Sub-surface Railway Stations) Regulations 1989 is amended—
(a) in paragraph (1) by inserting—
(i) after the words “regulations 4(1) and (3), 5(4) and (5), 6(1) and (3), 7(1), 8(2)” the words “and (3)”, and
(ii) after the words “they may” the words “, subject to paragraph (1A),”; and
(b) by inserting after paragraph (1)—
“(1A) A fire authority may not exercise their powers under paragraph (1) above in such a way that there would be in effect at the same time in respect of particular station premises exemptions from requirements of regulation 5(4) or 6(1) and from requirements of regulation 8(3).”.

## Signature

Michael Howard
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
18th August 1994

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Fire Precautions (Sub-surface Railway Stations) Regulations 1989 so as to add the requirement imposed by regulation 8(3) (flame resistant materials to be used for escalator surfaces) to those from which a fire authority may grant exemption under regulation 12(1); escalators in a station may not, however, at the same time be exempt from the regulation 8(3) requirement and from requirements as to water sprinklers or as to means for detecting fire.
Regulation 8(3) of the 1989 Regulations comes into force on 1st January 1996 (see regulation 1(3)). These amending Regulations accordingly come into force on that date.

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