Introduction to Fire Safety Management

2005
This Act builds on and extends the Disability 
Discrimination Act 1995.
15.5.1 New 
provisions
The DDA 2005 addresses the limitations of the initial leg-
islation by extending disabled people’s rights in respect 
of premises that are let or to be let, and commonhold 
premises.
From 4 December 2006, landlords and managers of 
let premises and premises that are to let will be required 
to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people.
Under the duties, provided certain conditions are 
met, landlords and managers of premises which are to 
let, or of premises which have already been let, must 
make reasonable adjustments, and a failure to do so will 
be unlawful unless it can be justifi ed under the Act.
These new duties of reasonable adjustment do not 
apply to:
➤
prospective lettings where landlords let their only 
or principal home and do not use the services of an 
estate agent to arrange the letting; or
➤
a letting where the landlord lets their only or princi-
pal home and does not use a professional manage-
ment agent to manage the letting; or
➤
certain small dwellings, for example where a land-
lord or manager lives on the premises and there is 
not normally residential accommodation on the 
premises for more than six persons.
15.5.2 Commonhold
The duty of reasonable adjustment also applies to 
common hold. This is a system of freehold ownership for 
blocks of fl ats, shops, offi ces and other multiple occu-
pation premises in England and Wales. A commonhold 
is made up of individual freehold properties which are 
known as commonhold units.
15.6
The Environmental Protection Act 
1990
The central theme of the Environmental Protection Act 
1990 (EPA) is to integrate all forms of pollution control.
The EPA is divided into nine parts:
1. Integrated Pollution Control and Air Pollution Con-
trol by Local Authorities
2. Waste on Land
3. Statutory Nuisance and Clean Air
4. Litter 
Control
5. Amendment to the Radioactive Substances Act 1960
6. Genetically 
Modifi ed Organisms
7. Nature Conservation in Great Britain
8. Miscellaneous 
Provisions
9. General 
Provisions.
This summary concentrates on key parts of Parts 1 and 
2 of the EPA.