{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-fire-safety-in-houses-in-multiple-occupation-order-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-fire-safety-in-houses-in-multiple-occupation-order-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/230",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Fire Safety in Houses in Multiple Occupation) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-fire-safety-in-houses-in-multiple-occupation-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Order:\n“flat” means any part of a building which was originally constructed or subsequently adapted for occupation by a single household and “self-contained” means that the flat has for the exclusive use of its occupants the facilities mentioned in section 352(1A)(a) to (c) of the Housing Act 1985;\n“responsible person” means “the person having control” or “the person managing” which have the same meaning as in section 398 of the Housing Act 1985; and\n“storey” excludes any storey lying wholly or mainly below the floor level of the principal entrance to the house.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Subsection (1A) of section 352 was inserted by paragraph 49 of Schedule 9 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 398 was amended by section 79(2) of the Housing Act 1996."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/230/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:30.683581+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."
}