# The Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025, Regulation 11: Relevant resident’s representative

Extent: E+W

(1) In the provisions set out in paragraph (2), a reference to the relevant resident includes a reference to the relevant resident’s representative.
(2) The provisions are—
(a) regulation 6(1)(b), for the purpose of making a request;
(b) the opening words of regulation 7(1);
(c) regulation 8;
(d) regulation 9(4)(b);
(e) regulation 10(2).
(3) In paragraph (1), the “relevant resident’s representative” means—
(a) a person with parental responsibility for the relevant resident;
(b) where the relevant resident lacks capacity in relation to the matters to which the provisions set out in paragraph (2) relate, a person who is—
(i) the attorney under a registered enduring power of attorney which relates to that resident,
(ii) the donee of a lasting power of attorney which relates to that resident, or
(iii) a deputy appointed in relation to that resident by the Court of Protection.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)—
(a) “parental responsibility” has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Children Act 1989;
(b) a relevant resident lacks capacity in relation to a matter if that resident lacks capacity in relation to it for the purposes of section 2 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/797/regulation/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fire-safety-residential-evacuation-plans-england-regulations-2025/regulation-11
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