133General Fire Regulations

133 General Fire Regulations

[Section 133 Subsection (1) amended by No. 12 of 1981, s. 32 ][Section 133 Subsection (1) amended by No. 73 of 1981, s. 6 ][Section 133 Subsection (1) amended by No. 34 of 1984, s. 12 ][Section 133 Subsection (1) amended by No. 96 of 1993, s. 252 and Sched. 1 ][Section 133 Subsection (1) amended by No. 29 of 1995, s. 106 ][Section 133 Subsection (2) amended by No. 29 of 1995, s. 106 ][Section 133 Subsection (3) amended by No. 96 of 1993, s. 252 and Sched. 1 ][Section 133 Subsection (3) amended by No. 14 of 1995, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ][Section 133 Subsection (3) amended by No. 61 of 1996, s. 5 ]

(1)  *[Section 133 Subsection (1) amended by No. 8 of 1980, s. 13 ]*The Governor may, on the recommendation of the Commission, make regulations, to be called the "General Fire Regulations" for the protection of life and property from fire and, for that purpose, those regulations may –

(a) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(b) require the alteration of existing premises to provide for the reasonable means of prevention of fire, minimising of fire risk, protection of life and property from fire, and the prescribed ways and means of escape;

(c) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(d) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(e) require that ways and means of escape in premises shall always be usable without unreasonable hindrance;

(f) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(g) require that premises or a room with prescribed characteristics within premises shall not be used for a prescribed purpose;

(h) require the maintenance and testing in premises of water mains, cisterns, taps, automatic sprinklers, buckets of water, buckets of sand, stirrup pumps, fire extinguishers, and other things and devices to extinguish, check the spread of, or give warning of, fire;

(i) require the preparation, publication, and practice of schemes for the evacuation of buildings in the event of fire occurring in or in the vicinity of the building;

(j) where the occupier of premises changes the use or contents of the premises or part of the premises so that the danger from fire is increased to other premises or parts of the same premises, require that occupier –