Fire and Smoke Alarms (PE1910) PE1910, which was lodged by Ian Nicol, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce an exemption for smaller houses from the requirement to have interlinked smoke and fire alarms fitted, which comes into force in just a few months’ time, in February 2022. The SPICe briefing that accompanies the petition explains that the Housing (Scotland) Act 2007 sets out a basic standard of house condition called the “tolerable standard”, which will be amended in February 2022 to include ceiling-mounted and interlinked smoke and heat alarms.