Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures

General Measures for Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures and Self Regulation

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1. (1) Residential Apartment Buildings (10 units and above), Hotels, Educational Buildings, Hospitals and Sanatoria, Assembly Buildings, Multiplex Buildings, Business Buildings, Mercantile Buildings, Industrial Buildings, Factories, Storage, Godowns, Hazardous Buildings, Restaurants (seating capacity 30 persons and above) and pandals shall be considered to constitute a fire hazard or risk occupancy premises or buildings: Provided that the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, include or exclude any class of occupancy having such height or covered area and pandals which, in its opinion, is likely to cause a risk of fire.
2. (2) The Government may require the owner or occupiers, or both, of premises or buildings or erectors of pandals notified under sub-section
3. (1) above, to take such fire prevention and life safety measures as per the Building Bye-laws and the National Building Code of India as prevalent on Fire and Life Safety or Code of Practice or Standards published by Bureau of Indian Standards as amended from time to time: Provided that no local authority shall grant construction permit without referring the matter to the Director, Assam Fire and Emergency Services or issue completion or occupancy certificate as the case may be in respect of the buildings or premises notified by the Government under sub-section
4. (1) above, without obtaining Fire Safety Certificate from the Assam Fire and Emergency Services.