{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-safety-residential-evacuation-plans-england-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-safety-residential-evacuation-plans-england-regulations-2025/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/797",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-safety-residential-evacuation-plans-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“emergency evacuation statement” has the meaning given in regulation 8(b)(i);\n“local fire and rescue authority” means, in relation to a specified residential building, the fire and rescue authority in whose area the specified residential building is situated;\n“military premises” means—\n(a) military barracks,\n(b) a building occupied solely for the purposes of the armed forces, or\n(c) a building occupied solely for the purposes of any visiting force or an international headquarters or defence organisation designated for the purposes of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964;\n“mitigating measure” means a measure to mitigate a risk identified in the person-centred fire risk assessment;\n“person-centred fire risk assessment” has the meaning given in regulation 6(2);\n“relevant resident” has the meaning given in regulation 4;\n“secure information box” means, in relation to a specified residential building, a box which meets the requirements in regulation 4(2) of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022;\n“specified residential building” has the meaning given in regulation 3.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 6.4.2026, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See article 2 of the 2005 Order for the meaning of “fire and rescue authority”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1964 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2022/547."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/797/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:55.390344+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."
}