Where—
the authority shall reject the plans application unless they show that the building, or, as the case may be, the building as extended, will be provided with such means of ingress and egress and passages or gangways as the authority, after consultation with the fire and rescue authority, deem satisfactory, regard being had to the purposes for which the building is intended to be, or is, used and the number of persons likely to resort to it at any one time.
Any question arising under subsection (1) above between a building control authority and the person by whom, or on whose behalf, plans are deposited an application for building control approval is made as to whether the means of ingress or egress or passages or gangways already existing, or proposed to be provided, ought to be accepted by the authority as satisfactory may on the application of that person be determined by the appropriate court or tribunal.
Where building regulations imposing requirements as to the provision of means of escape in case of fire are applicable to a proposed building or proposed extension of a building, or would be so applicable but for a direction under section 8 above dispensing with such requirements—
does not apply in relation to the proposed building or extension.
Subject to subsection (3) above, this section applies to—
but not—