Fire safety compliance, enforcement, offences and penalties under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, FSA 2021, BSA 2022, FSR 2022 and Residential Evacuation Plans 2025—England and Wales

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Practice notes

This Practice Note sets out the principal fire safety duties and offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, SI 2005/1541 (the Regulatory Reform Order 2005), the Fire Safety Act 2021 (FSA 2021) and the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022). It also covers provisions contained in the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 (FSR 2022), SI 2022/547.

For information on fire safety offences and enforcement in Scotland, see Practice Note: Fire safety law and offences in Scotland.
For workplace fire safety, see Practice Notes: Fire safety in the workplace—regulatory requirements and How to manage fire safety in the workplace.
For information on fire safety in commercial and mixed use buildings, see the Practice Note: Fire safety in commercial and mixed-use buildings.

Obligations under the Regulatory Reform Order 2005

The Regulatory Reform Order 2005, SI 2005/1541, primarily governs fire safety within non-domestic premises. However, it equally captures shared parts in buildings that house two or more sets of domestic premises in England and Wales. The Regulatory Reform Order 2005 extends to the building’s structure and external walls, all common parts, and ‘all doors between the domestic premises and common parts’ of any buildings that contain two or more sets of...

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Katherine Metcalfe

Pinsent Masons

Katherine is a litigator specialising in advice on health and safety, fire safety and environmental matters. Katherine works across the infrastructure, energy and real estate sectors. She is at the forefront of the firm's thought leadership on building and fire safety, advising clients on regulatory change occasioned by the Hackitt review of building regulations and fire safety. Having spent two years heading up the in-house legal team at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Katherine is uniquely placed to guide clients through the complexities of fire safety regulation across the UK. More broadly, Katherine has a wealth of experience in health and safety, environmental and fire safety law. For well over a decade, Katherine has provided pragmatic and down-to-earth advice to the firm's clients, including key players and household names, not only on immediate incident response, internal...

Laura White , LLB

Pinsent Masons

Laura is a Health and Safety Regulatory Senior Associate based in London. She is an experienced criminal litigator who regularly advises large international companies across sectors in relation to both regulatory prosecutions and compliance in relation to fire safety, building safety and health and safety. Laura’s experience includes high profile cases involving serious injuries, fatalities and corporate manslaughter investigations on major infrastructure projects and includes advising Joint Ventures. Laura’s experience includes advising on emergency incident response, attending scenes of a serious or fatal incidents, attending police interviews where necessary, advising on internal investigations and managing communication across multiple parties. Laura has advised in relation to public statements when there is significant actual or potential media interest in an incident on a high profile project.Laura currently represents and advises mainly very large companies and her background includes advising both large and small...

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