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Section 18C: Cases where a charge may be made for responding to report of fire etc

Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 · 2004 c. 21View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Functions of fire and rescue authorities

This section applies for the purposes of section 18B(3).

This section applies to a report of fire, or explosion, at sea or under the sea.

This section applies to a report of fire if—

the report is of fire at premises that are not domestic premises,
the report is false,
the report is made as a direct or indirect result of warning equipment having malfunctioned or been misinstalled, and
there is a persistent problem with false reports of fire at the premises that are made as a direct or indirect result of warning equipment under common control having malfunctioned or been misinstalled.

The references in subsection (2) to "sea" are not restricted to the territorial sea of the United Kingdom.

In subsection (3)—

  • " domestic premises " means premises occupied as a private dwelling (including any garden, yard, garage, outhouse or other appurtenance of such premises which is not used in common by the occupants of more than one such dwelling);

  • " warning equipment " means equipment installed for the purpose of—

    (a)detecting fire, or

    (b)raising the alarm, or enabling the alarm to be raised, in the event of fire.

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