Part 5: Other provisions about safety standards, etc. Fire safety Section 156: Amendment of Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 Effect
This section makes the following amendments to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, "the Fire Safety Order" as set out below. The Fire Safety Order applies to non-domestic premises in England and Wales. This section extends to Wales where applicable.
	In 2019 the Home Office published a call for evidence to better understand how well the Fire Safety Order (FSO) works in practice and whether any changes needed to be made to it. This was followed by a public consultation on fire safety that set out initial Government proposals to respond to the findings of the call for evidence, and finally by the Government’s response to the consultation, published in March 2021, which announced the Government’s proposals to legislate to amend the FSO as set out below. The FSO imposes a range of fire safety duties on Responsible Persons (which may include building owners or managers) and the changes below largely either add to or amend these duties.