Fire Safety Order: enforcement and sanctions for non-compliance
Publication Year
2026
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Provides guidance for Responsible Persons and other relevant people on the enforcement of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (SI 2005/1541) and the sanctions that can be applied for failure to comply.
Document History
Last updated: 3 July 2026 - Updated lead organisation to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government from Home Office and added guidance about Secretary of State determinations. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fire-safety-order-enforcement-and-sanctions-for-non-compliance/enforcement-and-sanctions-for-non-compliance-accessible and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 29 September 2023.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
