Article 8 Fire Precautions
The Company shall not operate any steam locomotive on any part of the Company’s railway—
so as to contravene any of the conditions set out in Schedule 2 to this Order; or
after the Company have been notified by the fire authority of the existence of a high risk of fire in the area where the Company’s railway is situated, until the fire authority have notified the Company that such high risk no longer exists.
It shall be the duty of the Company
as often as may be necessary, but in any case at intervals of not longer than one month, to request the advice of the fire authority as to the level of risk of fire in the area where the Company’s railway is situated;
at intervals of not longer than one year, and in any event before 1st March in any year, to request the advice of the fire authority as to the adequacy of the measures taken by the Company for fire prevention and for restricting the spread of fires.
In this article,“the fire authority” has the meaning given by the Fire Services Act 1947f1.
For the purposes of this article and of Schedule 2 to this Order,“steam locomotive” does not include any locomotive burning liquid fuel or any other locomotive of a design which does not emit sparks so as to give rise to a substantial risk of lineside fires.
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Footnotes
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