{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-safety-residential-evacuation-plans-england-regulations-2025/regulation-2/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-safety-residential-evacuation-plans-england-regulations-2025/regulation-2/enacted.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/enacted",
  "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—\nmilitary barracks,\na building occupied solely for the purposes of the armed forces, or\na 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": "enacted",
  "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."
}