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Fire Safety Law – Your Responsibilities

Fire Safety Enforcement

and Prosecution

Ian Kay

Station Manager Fire Service Headquarters

Headlines

Fire safety fines could hit £100 million warns lawyer

MAJOR FINE AFTER COMPANY BREACHES FIRE SAFETY ORDER

S ix F F igure P e P en enalty y for F ire e S afet ety y B rea eaches es Landlord Fined for Fire safety Law breaches. Major Retailers Fined for Fire Safety Law Breaches Both Tesco and the Co-op have received large fines this month for breaching the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Imprisonment and Fines for Hotelier and Fire Risk Assessor Hotel group pays £127,000 after ‘cavalier disregard’ of fire safety

Sanctions

Notification of Deficiencies Action Plan Enforcement Notice Prohibition/Restriction Notice

Other Sanctions

Precluding Clauses (Small Print)

Data Sharing (we tell people)

Prosecut ution

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Breach of a Prohibition Notice carries a maximum fine of £20,000 in Magistrates court or an unlimited fine in Crown court. Other offences under the Order carry fines of £5,000 per

• ffence or unlimited on Indictment to Crown Court.

All cases Cheshire have presented to court to this date have been successful and the fines awarded exceed £150k

We will prosecute

Statistics Enforcement Notices – 407 Prohibition Notices – 43 In effect 5% of premises we have visited have been subject to enforcement action

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