(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of the bye-laws or any other law for the time being in force in the Union territory, the owner or occupier, who is either individually or jointly responsible for a building or part thereof, shall provide fire prevention and life safety measures as may be prescribed:
Provided that the owner or the occupier, as the case may be, shall—
(a) provide firefighting and life safety installations or measures as provided in such bye-law;
(b) maintain the fire prevention and life safety measures in operational condition at all times, in the manner and specifications as specified in such bye-law.
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(2) Any person proposing to construct a building as mentioned in clauses (a) and (b) or pursuant to the rules made in this behalf, shall apply for approval of the fire and life safety measure along with the building plan to the nominated authority in this behalf, in such form along with such fee as may be prescribed, in case of—
(a) multi-storied buildings having more than fifteen-metre height;
(b) special buildings including,—
(i) hotel or resort or eating houses, apartment exceeding five hundred square metres of floor area on addition of the area of all floors, educational institutions, buildings for assembly, business or mercantile buildings, industry or factory, buildings for storage, godowns or buildings used for storage of hazardous materials;
(ii) mixed occupancies, where any of the buildings referred to in clause (a) or clause (b) have a floor area of more than five hundred square metres, on the addition of the area of all floors.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force in the Union territory, no authority shall grant or issue electricity or water connections, or an occupancy certificate, in respect of any building or premises, unless the owner or occupier thereof has obtained a Fire Safety Certificate in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation:
Provided that the owner or occupier of the building referred to in sub-section (2) shall, prior to the grant of building plan approval, obtain a provisional Fire Safety Certificate, in such form and manner as may be prescribed, and shall, prior to the grant of a completion certificate, obtain a Fire Safety Certificate from the nominated authority.
(4) Without prejudice to the existing building bye-laws, the owner or occupier of the buildings specified in sub-section (2) and the notification issued under sub-section (1) of section 25 shall obtain a Fire Safety Certificate from the fire and emergency service which shall be valid for five years, unless cancelled earlier by the nominated authority, from the date of issue of certificate:
Provided that after the expiry of a period of thirty months from the date of issue of the Fire Safety Certificate, the owner or occupier, as the case may be, shall submit to the nominated authority a self-declaration or certification, in such form and manner as may be prescribed, relating to the operational fitness and adequacy of the fire safety equipment and firefighting system installed in the premises.
(5) While applying for a Fire Safety Certificate, the owner or occupier, as the case may be, shall furnish to the nominated authority, a certificate certifying the compliance of the fire prevention and life safety measures in his building or part thereof, issued by a qualified agency, in such form as may be prescribed.
(6) The owner or occupier, as the case may be, after receipt of the Fire Safety Certificate shall furnish a declaration, in such form as may be prescribed, once a year in July, regarding the efficient maintenance of fire prevention and life safety measures as mentioned in sub-section (1).
(7) No person other than the qualified agency shall carry out the work of providing fire prevention and life safety measures or performing such other related activities required to be carried out in any place or building or part thereof.
(8) For the purpose of this section, the manner of selecting the qualified agency and the functions of such qualified agency shall be such as may be prescribed.
12 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [Part II— 12 Issue of Fire Safety Certificate and its renewal.
Power of inspection of nominated authority.
Communication of information on outbreak of fire.