Fire Safety Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · Fire Prevention in Buildings
23. Fire certificate
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Director may, by notice in writing, require the owner or occupier of any building subject to this section to apply and obtain a fire certificate from the Director.
The following buildings shall be subject to this section —
any public building which has an occupant load of more than two hundred persons or, if so specified with such other occupant load as the Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, specify;
any other particular building, or any building in any other class of buildings, designated by the Minister under subsection (3) to be subject to this section.
Where, in the opinion of the Minister, any fire within any building
building
“building” has the same meaning as in the Building Control Order, 2014;
(whether used as a residential building or an industrial building or otherwise)
is likely to be a significant source of danger to the occupants in the building, or to life or property in the vicinity of that building, the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, designate that particular building or a class of such buildings to be subject to this section.
The Director may, pending compliance with any requirements relating to fire safety affecting any part of a building subject to this section, issue a fire certificate in respect only of any other part of the building if he is satisfied that those requirements do not affect the fire safety of that other part of the building.
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No person shall occupy or use any building or part thereof subject to this section or permit the building or part thereof to be occupied or used without a fire certificate authorising such occupation or use.
Such application shall be in accordance with the regulations made under this Act.
Any person to whom subsection (1) or (5) applies who contravenes subsection (1) or (5) is guilty of an offence.
In this section —
“industrial building” means any building or part of a building which is used wholly or mainly for —
the manufacture of goods or materials or the subjection of goods or materials to any process, including any research or development for any manufacturing trade or business; or
the purposes of any water, gas, telecommunication, electricity or other industrial undertaking, including research and development for any such industrial undertaking;
“occupant load”, in relation to a building, means the number of persons that may safely occupy the building at any one time.
Terms defined in s 2
building
Defined · s 2“building” has the same meaning as in the Building Control Order, 2014;
occupier
Defined · s 2“occupier”, in relation to any premises, means the person in occupation of the premises or having the charge, management or control thereof and, in relation to any part of any premises different parts of which are occupied by different persons, means the person in occupation or having the charge, management or control of that part;
public building
Defined · s 2“public building” means a building or part of a building — (a) used as a hospital or a nursing home; (b) used ordinarily or occasionally to provide residential care to aged persons or child care for groups of children; (c) used wholly or mainly as or in connection with a hotel, shop or restaurant; or (d) where the public or any part thereof or numbers of persons occasionally or regularly assemble for — (i) civic or social (but not religious or educational) purposes; (ii) entertainment, recreational or sporting purposes; or (iii) business purposes;
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