# The Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: E+W

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations are made under article 24 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1541) (“the Fire Safety Order”), which enables the making of regulations regarding precautions to be taken or observed in relation to the risk to safety of persons from fire in premises to which that Order applies.
These Regulations make provision for personal and building emergency evacuation plans in relation to specified residential buildings (see regulation 3).
Part 1 sets out definitions used in these Regulations.
Part 2 sets out the residential personal emergency evacuation plan process. It makes provision requiring the responsible person (defined in article 3(b) of the Fire Safety Order in relation to specified residential buildings) to identify residents with cognitive or physical impairments that may affect their ability to evacuate a building in the event of a fire (regulation 5) and to undertake a person-centred fire risk assessment for any such resident that requests it (regulation 6). It also makes provision relating to measures to mitigate any risks identified (regulation 7) and for the responsible person to agree with the resident an emergency evacuation statement (regulation 8). Regulation 9 provides for review of the person-centred fire risk assessment, mitigating measures and emergency evacuation statement. Regulation 11 provides for the responsible person to conduct the process with the relevant resident’s representative in specified circumstances. Regulation 12 clarifies that the duties and powers imposed and conferred by the Regulations must be exercised in accordance with data protection legislation.
Part 3 requires a responsible person to prepare a building level emergency evacuation plan, and provides for review of that plan.
Regulations 10 and 13 provide for the provision of information relating to personal and building emergency evacuation plans to the local fire and rescue authority.
Regulation 14 makes a consequential amendment to the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/547).
An impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs to business and the voluntary sector is available from the Fire Safety Unit, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF and is published with an Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/797/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fire-safety-residential-evacuation-plans-england-regulations-2025/note/enacted
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