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The Gujarat Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2013
The Gujarat Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2013
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. One fire service for whole of State.
Section 34. Superintendence of Fire Service to vest in State.
Section 45. Constitution and classification of Fire Service.
Section 56. Appointment of Director.
Section 67. Powers, duties and functions of Director.
Section 78. Constitution of fire region.
Section 89. Division of fire region into fire divisions.
Section 910. Appointment of Fire Officers.
Section 1011. Powers, duties and functions of Fire Officers.
Section 1112. Appointment of Fire Safety Officer.
Section 1213. Requisition of fire fighting property.
Section 1314. Functions in case of fire.
Section 1415. Power to arrange supply of water.
Section 1516. Power to enter into agreement.
Section 1617. Training.
Section 1718. Requirement for fire prevention and life safety measures.
Section 1819. Manner of compliance for prevention and life safety measures.
Section 1920. Consequences for non-compliance of section 19.
Section 1921. Suspension, termination and punishment.
Section 2122. Safety Measures for fire hazardous materials.
Section 2223. Assistance of police in fire prevention and firefighting operation.
Section 2324. Power to entry and inspect.
Section 2425. Steps to be taken for non-compliance of notice.
Section 2526. Evacuation and power to seal.
Section 2627. Provisions for temporary structures.
Section 2728. Licensed Agency.
Section 2829. Work to be carried out by the Licensed Agency.
Section 2930. Levy of fire fees.
Section 3031. Mode of assessment, collection, etc. of fire fees.
Section 3132. Constitution of fund.
Section 3233. Appeal.
Section 3334. Limitations for filing Appeal.
Section 3435. Jurisdiction of Court.
Section 3536. Bar of Court.
Section 3637. Cognizance of offence.
Section 3738. Compounding of offence or withdrawal of proceedings.
Section 3839. Offences and penalties.
Section 3940. Offences and penalties for removing seal.
Section 4041. Assistance to Fire Officers.
Section 4142. Failure to give information.
Section 4243. Penalty for wilfully obstructing firefighting rescue operations.
Section 4344. False report.
Section 4445. Offence by a company.
Section 4546. Officers and employees to be public servant.
Section 4647. Death of member of Fire Service.
Section 4748. Employment on other duties.
Section 4849. Effect of inconsistency with other Act.
Section 4950. Act to have overriding effect and effect of other laws.
Section 5051. Transfer of assets, rights, etc. by State Government to State Fire Services.
Section 5152. Delegation of power.
Section 5253. Power to issue directions.
Section 5354. Reporting by Regional Fire Officer or Chief Fire Officer.
Section 5455. Power of State Government to give directions.
Section 5556. Decision of State Government to be final.
Section 5657. Power to make rules.
Section 5758. Power to make regulations.
Section 5859. Power to remove difficulty.
Section 5960. Removal of doubt.
Section 6061. Protection of action taken in good faith.
Section 6162. Recovery of dues.
Section 6263. Savings.
Section 6364. Fire Services to be consider as Emergency Services.
Section 64
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"content": "(a) \"building\" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the GDCR or relevant law or any law for the time being in force in the area in which this Act is in force; and includes places or premises comprising land or building, or part of a land or building, outhouses, if any, appertaining to such building or part thereof and petrol, diesel or gas lines, communication lines, power installations or pumps, whether authorized or otherwise;\n(b) \"building bye-laws\" means the building bye-laws, rules of regulations made under any relevant law and includes GDCR or regulations, by whatever name they are called, or any other building rules or regulations made under any other law for the time being in force and are in operation in the area in which this Act is in force;\n(c) \"Chief Fire Officer\" means a person as classified under section 10;\n(d) \"Commissioner\" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (9) of section 2 of the Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act,1949 (Bombay LIX of 1949);\n(e) \"Director\" means a person appointed under section 6;\n(f) \"disaster\" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (h) of section 2 of Gujarat State Disaster Management Act, 2003 (Gujarat 20 of 2003);\n(g) \"emergency services\" means services required to be rendered in case of manmade or natural disaster or any eventuality where the life is at risk;\n(h) \"erector\" means a person or an association of persons, whether corporate or otherwise, who erects or makes a shamiyana or tents or mandap or any structure for occupation of people on a regular or temporary basis;\n(i) \"fees\" means fees levied under section 30;\n(j) \"fire division\" means a territory comprising such number of fire sub-divisions as may be prescribed; and declared generally or specially by the State Government to be a fire division for the purpose of this Act;\n(k) \"fire prevention and life safety measures\" means such measures as are necessary in accordance with the building bye-laws or as required by or under the provisions of any law or the National Building Code of India, for the time being in force, for the prevention, control and fighting of fire and for ensuring the safety of life and property in case of fire;\n(l) \"fire region\" means territory comprising such number of fire divisions as may be prescribed and declared generally or specially by the State Government to be a fire region for the purpose of this Act;\n(m) \"fire safety officer\" means a person appointed under section 12 of this Act as the Fire Safety Officer by the owners and occupiers of certain premises and buildings as specified in this behalf to ensure fire prevention and fire safety measures installed in such premises and buildings;\n(n) \"Fund\" means fund constituted under section 32;\n(o) \"GDCR\" means the General Development Control Regulations made under clause (m) of sub-section (2) of section 12 of Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976 (President's Act No. 27 of 1976);\n(p) \"Licensed Agency\" means a person or an association of persons licensed under sub-section (1) of section 28;\n(q) \"Housing Society\" includes all registered residential and non-residential or mixed housing societies, association of owners or coowners of flat occupancy, building premises and associations of owners as defined under the Gujarat Ownership of Flats Act, 1973 (Gujarat 13 of 1973);\n(r) \"local authority\" means a municipal corporation, nagar panchayat, municipality, district panchayat, taluka panchayat, gram panchayat, notified area committee or cantonment board constituted under relevant local authority law;\n(s) \"Local Fire service\" means the local fire service as may be notified by the State Government under section 3.\n(t) \"National Building Code of India\" means the book or books containing Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures to be implemented in the buildings, places, premises, workshops, warehouses and industries, published from time to time by the Bureau of Indian Standards;\n(u) \"nominated officer\" means an officer possessing the prescribed qualifications and nominated by the Director or the Regional Fire Officer or the Chief Fire Officer to perform duties and functions laid down under this Act;\n(v) \"occupancy\" means the principal occupancy for which a building or a part of a building is used or intended to be used including subsidiary occupancies which are contingent upon it;\n(w) \"occupier\" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (xvi) of section 2 of the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976 (President Act No. 27 of 1976);\n(x) \"owner\" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (xvii) of section 2 of the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976 (President Act No. 27 of 1976) and shall also include the housing society;\n(y) \"premises\" means any land or any building or part of a building and includes the garden ground and outhouse, if any, appertaining building or part of a building; and any land or any building or part of a building appurtenant thereto which is used for storing explosives explosive substance and dangerously inflammable substance;\n(z) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under section 57;\n(za) \"Regional Fire Officer\" means a person appointed under section 8;\n(zb) \"regulations\" means regulations made by the Director under section 58;\n(zc) \"shamiyana or tents or mandap\" means a temporary structure with roof or walls made of straw, hay, ulu grass, golpatta, hogla, darma, mat, canvas, cloth or other like material which is not adopted for permanent or continuous occupancy.\nChapter II\nOrganization, Superintendence, Control and Maintenance of Fire Service",
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"content": "(i) the officers and employees responsible for providing the fire services in the areas of such local authority, shall be deemed to have been absorbed in the State Fire Service, subject to such terms and conditions as may be notified;\n(ii) terms and conditions applicable to the employees after such absorption shall be such as may be decided by the State Government,\n(iii) all proceeding pending before any fire officer, immediately before the declaration, be deemed to be proceeding pending before him in his capacity as the holder of the office to which he is deemed to be appointed under sub-clause (2), One fire service for whole of State.\n(iv) all assets, rights and liabilities relating to the fire services of such local authorities shall stand transferred to the State Fire Service, subject to such terms and conditions as the State Government may deem fit,\n(v) the State Government may take such necessary actions as it deems fit.",
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"content": "(a) the different posts of the State Fire Service;\n(b) the mode of recruitment of staff, grade of post, the qualification, pay, allowances and other conditions of service of the officers and other staff engaged therein and matters connected therewith;\n(3) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette , review the existing pattern of the existing different fire services in the State and if deem fit may modify:",
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"content": "(i) function as the Head of Department in the office of the Director;\n(ii) subject to the rules made in this behalf, the Director may appoint subordinate staff only on the recommendations of the Gujarat State Subordinate Services Selection Board on such terms and conditions of salaries and allowances as may be fixed by the State Government;\n(iii) keep liaison with the Central Government and the State Government offices for the development of fire services;\n(iv) frame the policies in relation to the development of fire services in the State and, on approval by the State Government, take steps to implement the same;\n(v) exercise superintendence and control over all authorities in the matters relating to fire prevention and fire safety measures; and subject to the approval of the State Government, issue such directions to any authority in respect of fire services maintained or required to be maintained by them;\n(vi) represent the State Government on National and International forums with a view to updating the standard of fire services in the State;\n(vii) prepare and submit plans and proposals to the State Government with regard to the periodical review of fire equipment, fire property and fire manpower for effective implementation of fire services by the authorities;\n(viii) take or cause to be taken such effective steps and measures in cases of major fires, house collapse and other emergency services;\n(ix) investigate or cause to be investigated the cause of fire and advise the authorities for implementing fire precautionary measures;\n(x) advise the State Government to set up additional Fire Training Centre or Centres for imparting training to the officers and staff of local authorities so as also to cater to the need of the various factories, commercial and mercantile establishments in the private sector and to impart training to officers and the staff or to provide them the trained and qualified fire service personnel;\n(xi) requisite fire-fighting equipment of any authority or any institution or individual, which in his opinion is required for the purpose of extinguishing fire in any area ; and to determine the amount of compensation payable in respect of such equipment of in the area of which authority, such fire operation is required to be carried out;\n(xii) exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions as may be conferred, imposed or allotted to him by or under the provisions of this Act.",
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"content": "(i) shall appoint a fire safety officer, having such qualifications as may be prescribed;\n(ii) send the compliance report to the Regional Fire Officer or the Chief Fire Officer, as the case may be, under section 18.\nChapter III\nRequisition, Compensation for Fire Equipment",
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"content": "(a) where the amount of compensation can be fixed by agreement between the Director or, as the case may be, the Chief Fire Officer and the owner of the firefighting property, it shall be paid in accordance with such agreement;\n(b) where no such agreement can be reached, the Director or, as the case may be, the Chief Fire Officer shall refer the matter to the District Magistrate having jurisdiction over the area in which the firefighting equipment or property was kept, used or procured and the Magistrate shall, after hearing the parties and such other persons as he deems necessary, fix the amount of compensation taking into consideration the rent which the firefighting equipment or property would normally fetch if rented out for a similar purpose. The orders of the District Magistrate fixing the amount of compensation shall be final.",
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"content": "(a) remove, or order any other fire officer or fire personnel to remove, any person who by his presence, interferes with or impedes the operations for extinguishing the fire or for saving life or property;\n(b) close any street or passage in or near which fire has taken place;\n(c) break into or through, or pull down, any premises, for the passage of hose or appliances or cause them to be broken into or through, or pulled down, doing as little damage as possible for the purpose of extinguishing fire:\n(d) require the authority in-charge of water supply in the area to regulate the water mains so as to provide water at a specified pressure at the place where the fire has broken out and utilise the water of any stream, cistern, well or tank or of any available source of water, public or private, for the purpose of extinguishing or limiting the spread of such fire;\n(e) exercise, in the absence of aid from the police, the same powers for dispersing an assembly of persons likely to obstruct the firefighting operations as if he were an officer-in-charge of a police station;\n(f) generally take such measures as may appear to be necessary for extinguishing the fire or for the protection of life or property.",
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"number": "16",
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"content": "Chapter IV\nTraining to Fire Personnels",
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"number": "17",
"title": "17. Training.",
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"content": "Chapter V\nProvisions Relating to Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures",
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"number": "18",
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"content": "(i) provide minimum firefighting and life safety installations as provided in the regulations;\n(ii) maintain the fire prevention and life safety measures in operational condition at all times, in the manner and specifications specified in regulations.",
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"number": "19",
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"content": "(a) no authority empowered to issue the occupancy certificate, shall issue the same, unless it is satisfied that the owner or the occupier, either individually or jointly, has complied with the provisions of section 18;\n(b) in case of building or part thereof, on the date of commencement of this Act, where development permission is issued and construction is not commenced or the construction is commenced but not completed or the construction is completed but occupancy certificate is not issued, and where the housing society or the owner or the occupier, individually or jointly liable, as the case may be, is required to comply the provisions of section 18, the Regional Fire Officer or the Chief Fire Officer, as the case may be, shall either suo moto or otherwise serve on the owner or occupier, as the case may be, a notice in the manner as may be prescribed and direct him to undertake and carryout fire prevention and life safety measures, as deemed necessary, within two months from the commencement of this Act, or within such period or periods as may be extended by the State Government by order in writing:",
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"number": "19",
"title": "20. Consequences for non-compliance of section 19.",
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"number": "21",
"title": "21. Suspension, termination and punishment.",
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"number": "22",
"title": "22. Safety Measures for fire hazardous materials.",
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"number": "23",
"title": "23. Assistance of police in fire prevention and firefighting operation.",
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"number": "24",
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"number": "25",
"title": "25. Steps to be taken for non-compliance of notice.",
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"number": "26",
"title": "26. Evacuation and power to seal.",
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"content": "(a) the authority responsible for supply of electricity or supply of water, to disconnect the supply of electricity or water, as the case may be;\n(b) any police officer having jurisdiction in the area, to remove such persons from such place or building or part thereof and such authority or police officer shall comply with such directions.\nChapter VI\nProvisions for Temporary Structures",
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"title": "27. Provisions for temporary structures.",
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"content": "Chapter VII\nLicensed Agency",
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"number": "29",
"title": "29. Work to be carried out by the Licensed Agency.",
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"content": "Chapter VIII\nLevy of Fire Fee and Other Charges",
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"number": "31",
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"title": "33. Appeal.",
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"content": "(i) the notice issued under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 19, or\n(ii) the refusal of the Regional Officer or the Chief Fire Officer to pass an order under sub-section (4) of section 26, may prefer an appeal to the Director. Such appeal shall be made in such manner and accompanied with such fees, as may be prescribed. The Director after giving a reasonable opportunity to the appellant of being heard, pass an order, and every such order passed under this section shall be final:",
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"number": "34",
"title": "34. Limitations for filing Appeal.",
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"title": "39. Offences and penalties.",
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"content": "(a) under sub-section (1) of section 18, fails to provide and maintain the fire prevention and life safety equipment in good repair and efficient condition;\n(b) under sub-section (1) of section 19, fails to comply with the notice directing to undertake and carry out fire prevention and life safety measures;\n(c) under sub-section (4) of section 21, tampers with, alters, removes or causes any injury or damage to any fire prevention and life safety equipment installed in a building or instigating any other person to do so;\n(d) under sub-section (2) of section 22, after non-compliance of the direction of removal of objects or goods likely to cause the risk of fire to a place of safety, causes obstruction in authorized seizure, detention, and removal of such objects or goods;\n(e) under sub-section (3) of section 24, obstructs the entry by an authorized or empowered person or molests such person after such entry for inspection; under sub-section (4) of section 26, removes the seal of the building without written order made by the Regional Fire Officer or the Chief Fire Officer;\n(f) under sub-section (4) of section 27, fails to comply with the directions issued by the Director or the Regional Fire Officer or the Chief Fire Officer;\n(g) under sub-section (1) of section 29, carries out the work of providing fire prevention and life safety measures, or performing such other related activities by a person other than the Licensed Agency; or\n(h) under sub-section (2) of section 29, giving a certificate under subsection (3) of section 19 without there being actual compliance or maintenance of fire prevention and life safety measures and equipment;\n(a) wilingly attempts, in any manner whatsoever, to evade any fee or interest leviable under this Act, or\n(b) contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or the rules for which no specific penalty has been provided for by this Act, or\n(c) fails to comply with the requirement of any order or any notice or any direction, issued under any of the provisions of this Act or the rules, by the Director or any authority or the Regional Fire Officer or the Chief Fire Officer of such Authority or any other officer authorised by any of them, for which no specific penalty has been provided by this Act, shall, on conviction, be punished, -\n(i) in case where the amount, of fees and/or interest exceeds rupees 50,000 during the period of a year, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which may extend to two years or with fine or with both;\n(ii) in case where such amount is less than rupees 50,000 during a year, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than one month but which may extend to one year or with fine or with both;\n(iii) in case of contravention of any provision of this Act or the rules made thereunder or failure to comply with the requirement of any order or notice as aforesaid, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which may extend to two years or with fine or with both.\nExplanation.",
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"number": "40",
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"number": "41",
"title": "41. Assistance to Fire Officers.",
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"number": "42",
"title": "42. Failure to give information.",
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"number": "43",
"title": "43. Penalty for wilfully obstructing firefighting rescue operations.",
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"number": "44",
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"number": "45",
"title": "45. Offence by a company.",
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"content": "Explanation.\n(a) \"company\" means a body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals ; and\n(b) \"director\", in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm, and in relation to any association of persons or body of individuals, means any member controlling the affairs thereof.\nChapter XI\nMiscellaneous",
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"number": "46",
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"number": "48",
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"number": "60",
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"number": "61",
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"number": "62",
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"Short Title": "The Gujarat Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act, 2013",
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