Fire Safety Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part · General
52. Inaccuracies in documents
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
No misnomer or inaccurate description of any person, premises, building, aircraft, vessel, vehicle, holding, street or place named or described in any document prepared, issued or served under, by virtue of or for the purposes of this Act, shall in any way affect the operation of this Act as respects that person or place if that person or place is so designated in the document as to be identifiable.
premises
“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built or not, whether public or private, and whether or not maintained under statutory authority;
No proceedings taken under or by virtue of this Act shall be invalid for want of form.
Terms defined in this Act
building
Defined · s 2“building” has the same meaning as in the Building Control Order, 2014;
place
Defined · s 36“place” includes houses, yards and open spaces appurtenant thereto, buildings and footways and any underground space;
premises
Defined · s 2“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built or not, whether public or private, and whether or not maintained under statutory authority;
street
Defined · s 2“street” includes — (a) any road, bridge, underpass, tunnel, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way; and (b) any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not, and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves that are deemed to be part of the street;
vessel
Defined · s 2“vessel” includes — (a) any ship or boat or air-cushioned vehicle; and (b) any rig or platform, whether floating at sea or fixed to the sea bed, used in any form of operations at sea.