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The Domestic Fire Safety (Definition of Residence) (Wales) Order 2013

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Classes of residential premises

2.—(1) Section 6(1) of the Measure is amended as follows.

(2) At the appropriate places insert—

“dwelling-house” (“tŷ annedd”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Building Regulations 2010(1);

“flat” (“fflat”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Building Regulations 2010;

(3) In the definition of “residence”—

(a)for paragraphs (d) and (e) substitute—

(d)hall of residence;

(e)a room or suite of rooms, which is not a dwelling-house or a flat and which is used by one or more persons to live and sleep and includes a room in a hostel or a boarding house, but does not include—

(i)a room in an hotel;

(ii)a room in a hostel provided for temporary accommodation to those who are ordinarily resident elsewhere;

(iii)a room in a hospital or other similar establishment used for patient accommodation;

(iv)rooms in a prison or young offender institution;

(v)premises for the accommodation of persons remanded on bail;

(vi)premises for the accommodation of persons who may be required to reside there by a probation order, or

(b)insert after paragraph (e)—

(f)children’s home, where “children’s home” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Care Standards Act 2000(2) but which does not include—

(i)an institution within the further education sector as defined by section 91(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(3);

(ii)an establishment used to accommodate children only for the purposes of any one or more of the following—

(aa)a holiday;

(bb)a leisure, sporting, cultural or educational activity;

so long as no one child is accommodated there for more than 28 days in any twelve month period;

(iii)a young offender institution, and

(1)

S.I. 2010/2214, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(2)

2000 (c.14). Section 1 was amended by section 95 and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14); section 18 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33).

(3)

1992 (c. 13). There are amendments to section 91(3) which are not relevant to this Order.

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