For the
Avon
Fire & Rescue Service enforcement policy click
here.
What is the Public
Register?
As part of its ongoing commitment to making its constituent area’s
safer, Avon Fire and Rescue Service visits and inspects a wide
range of premises which fall subject to the Regulatory Reform
(Fire Safety) Order 2005.
If fire safety problems are discovered that
lead to the premises putting people at risk, Avon Fire and
Rescue Service will take action to ensure that the premises are
made safe from fire for everybody. This action can include the
issuing of legal notices requiring ‘responsible persons’ to take
specific actions, to ensure safety.
As an enforcing authority of fire safety
legislation, Avon Fire and Rescue Service is required by the
Environment and Safety Information Act 1988 to maintain a public
register of the notices we have served.
Notices included on the register are:
· Alterations Notices: An
alterations notice may be served on the responsible person if
the Fire and Rescue Authority is of the opinion that any
structural alterations being made to the premises will
constitute a serious risk to relevant persons (whether due to
features of the premises, their use, and any hazard present or
any other circumstances).
· Enforcement Notices: Where the
Fire and Rescue Authority is of the opinion that the person
responsible for fire safety in the premises has failed to comply
with any provision of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
2005.
· Prohibition Notices: The Fire
and Rescue Authority can prohibit or restrict the use of
premises if the risk to people in case of fire is so serious
until the specified matters have been remedied.
How does it work?
Notices served by Avon Fire and Rescue
Service can be viewed electronically on the website of the Chief
Fire Officers Association.
Simply following
this link to the
CFOA register of Legal Notices and use the ‘Register Search’
facility.
The register is
used by a number of different Fire Services and allows you to
search by premises type, premises names or addresses or by issuing
Fire Service, you can select Avon Fire and Rescue Service to view
all notices served by this Authority should you so wish.
Each entry in the
register will be indexed and contain sufficient detail to convey
the substance of the notice to which it relates.
Information of notices will be available for
public inspection on the register within 14 days of expiry of
the 21 day statutory appeal period. Where an appeal is made, no
notice will be recorded until a decision on the appeal is
reached. No entry will be made if a notice is ‘overturned’ by
the Courts.
Should the status of a notice change e.g. it
is ‘withdrawn’ or ‘complied with’, the register will be updated
to reflect these changes.
Entries will remain on the register for a
period of five years or for as long as they remain in force.