{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-safety-residential-evacuation-plans-england-regulations-2025/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-safety-residential-evacuation-plans-england-regulations-2025/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Emergency evacuation statement",
  "text": "The responsible person must, taking into account the risks identified in the person-centred fire risk assessment and any mitigating measures that are to be implemented under regulation 7—\n(a) use reasonable endeavours to agree with the relevant resident the approach to the resident’s evacuation in the event of a fire, and\n(b) where the approach is agreed—\n(i) record the approach in a statement in writing (an “emergency evacuation statement”), and\n(ii) provide the relevant resident with a copy of the emergency evacuation statement.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 6.4.2026, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/797/regulation/8",
    "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."
}