Under the Fire Precaution (Jersey) Law 1977, the following premises must have a fire certificate:

 

1. hospitals, regardless of how many people sleep there

2. care or nursing homes, regardless of how many people sleep there

3. ports and, or airport: any building which forms part of these, and includes an area used for passenger arrivals and, or departures from a ship or aircraft

4. hostels, tourist accommodation and lodging houses and residential schools, if they:

   • provide sleeping accommodation for more than five people, some of which is above the first floor or below the ground floor, or

   • provide sleeping accommodation for more than 40 people

5. residential schools
    

Fire certificates must also be in place for Houses in Multiple Occupation (HiMOs)

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If you own or lease buildings occupied by people who don't form a single household, your building may be classed as an HiMO and you'll need a Fire Certificate.

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A building may be an HiMO if any of the following apply:

 

• if the building, or part of the building, is owned or leased and has been converted into flats or bedsits

• if more than five people live in the building and one or more of them sleep below the ground floor or above the first floor

• if more than 40 people live in the building on any floor

• if more than one of the flats / bedsits shares a toilet, bathroom or cooking facilities with another flat or bedsit

• if the building has been converted into a block of self-contained flats, of which fewer than two-thirds are owner-occupied.