Odisha Fire Prevention and Fire Safety (Amendment) Rules, 2019 has been notified on 6th March, 2019.
In the amendment, Classes of premises or occupancies likely to cause risk of fire as per Rule 9 hence requiring a fire safety certificate, have been revised and defined more clearly as under:
- Underground or partially underground structures which are above five hundred square meters.
- Places of Assembly like Auditoria, convention halls, Assembly halls, recreation halls etc. having a built up area of five hundred square meters and above on any one or more floors where people congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religious or any other similar purposes.
- Business or office buildings— (i) having a height of twelve meters and above; or (ii) having a built up area of five hundred square meters or above.
- Clinical Establishments— (i) clinical establishments having height of twelve meters and above or’ (ii) functioning in buildings having more than three floors including all underground, basement, stilt and mezzanine floors or, (iii) having more than thirty beds or, (iv) having any Critical Care Unit.
- Educational Buildings— (i) having a height of twelve meters and above or, (ii) having a built up area of one thousand square meters or above; or (iii) having three storied building.
- Hotels, Lodgings and Guest Houses— (i) having a height of twelve meters and above or, (ii) having a built up area of five hundred square meters or above, (iii) of three Star and above categories, (iv) having places of Assembly like Auditoria, Convention Halls, Assembly Halls, Recreation Halls etc. of built up area of five hundred square meters and above on any one or more floors where people congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social , religious and similar other purposes.
- Malls, shopping complexes and mercantile buildings— (i) having a height of nine meters and above or, (ii) having a built up area of five hundred square meters or above.
- Temporary structures of one thousand square meters and above where the congregation is two thousand or more.
- Warehouses or Storage area of five hundred square meters built up area or above.
Other relevant changes brought by amendment are:
- Fees for deployment of fire service unit or first-aid fire fighting, payable by organizer of any public function or private institution, has been decreased from Rupees ten thousand to Five thousand. The Director of Fire Service has been given discretionary power to reduce the extent of the fees or exempt such fees completely in view of larger public interest.
- Fire Safety Certificate in Form-V shall be issued within eighteen days of receipt of his application. Earlier, the time period was 45 days.
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