DEPUTY PM SUBMITS DRAFT NEW WORDING OF LAW PARLIAMENT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Deputy Prime Minister D.Terbishdagva Tuesday submitted to the Speaker Z.Enkhbold a draft new wording of the law on fire safety. Adopted by parliament in 1999, the law on fire safety provided needs of that time, but it has gone out of date today due to many factors such as global climate change, a socio-economic development of the country, urbanization, population density and intensive development of constructions, industries, mining and technologies, the draft initiator said. In addition, the law is required to be amended because the risk of fires has been increasing year to year, for example, objective fires occurred 9,105 times in last three years, causing financial loss of MNT 18.7 billion. 224 people died and 155 people have injured due to the fires, the Deputy Premier said. He added that the draft new wording aims to upgrade a legal environment for fire safety of people and organizations and to intensify measures for preventing fires.