Regulation 18 Application to the Crown

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 18(1) word substituted by Fire Precautions (Workplace) 1999 reg. 16(a)
reg. 18(5A) inserted by Fire Precautions (Workplace) 1999 reg. 16(b)
reg. 18(5) words inserted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2004 art. 42(3)(a)(i)
reg. 18(5) words inserted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2004 art. 42(3)(a)(ii)
reg. 18(6) words inserted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2004 art. 42(3)(b)
reg. 18(5) words inserted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2005 art. 41(3)(a)(i)
reg. 18(5) words inserted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2005 art. 41(3)(a)(ii)
reg. 18(6) words inserted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2005 art. 41(3)(b)
reg. 18(5) words substituted by Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) 2005 Sch. 1 para. 20(3)(a)(i)
reg. 18(5) words substituted by Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) 2005 Sch. 1 para. 20(3)(a)(ii)
reg. 18(6) words substituted by Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) 2005 Sch. 1 para. 20(3)(b)

(1)

Subject to paragraphs (2) to (7), these Regulations, other than regulations 10, 11 and 13 to 16, shall bind the Crown.

(2)

Section 10 of the 1971 Act, to the extent it is extended by regulation 12, shall only bind the Crown in so far as it applies to premises and workplaces owned by the Crown but not occupied by it.

(3)

Regulation 17 shall only bind the Crown to the extent that it applies sections 19, 21 and 32 of the 1971 Act and then only in so far as those sections apply to premises and workplaces owned by the Crown but not occupied by it.

(4)

To the extent that they apply to the Crown, these Regulations, together with any provision of the 1971 Act applied by these Regulations, shall have effect with the substitution, for any reference to a fire authority, of—

(a)

in the case of workplaces occupied solely for the purposes of the armed forces of the Crown, a reference to the fire service maintained by the Secretary of State for Defence; and

(b)

in any other case, a reference to a fire inspector or any person authorised by the Secretary of State to act for the purposes of this regulation.

(5)

Any power exercisable by virtue of paragraph (4) by a fire inspector shall be exercisable also by any person if and so far as he is authorised in writing by such an inspector to exercise that power; but a fire inspector shall not authorise an officer of a fire brigade under this paragraph except with the consent of the fire authority who maintain that brigade.

(6)

In this regulation “fire inspector” means an inspector or assistant inspector appointed under section 24 of the Fire Services Act 1947.

(7)

Nothing in these Regulations shall be taken to authorise the entry of any premises occupied by the Crown.