No. The FSO abolished the requirement for businesses to have fire certificates.
Instead, the FSO seeks to ensure that businesses actively pursue and maintain fire safety and take responsibility for their staff and others visiting their premises.

Yes if you are an employer, owner or occupier of business or industrial premises, or if you have some degree control over any commercial premises

You should keep your fire risk assessment under regular review as risks may change over time.
If you make changes to your premises, you should ensure that the assessment and risk management plan remains current.

The purpose of the FSO is to simplify fire safety legislation and reduce the number of enforcing authorities that businesses have to deal with. The FSO abolished the requirement for businesses to have a fire certificate and replaced it with a duty on a 'responsible person' (usually the owner, occupier or employer) to carry out a risk assessment and implement appropriate measures to minimise the risk to life and property from fire; and to keep the assessment up to date.

The FSO places a duty on a 'responsible person' (usually the owner, employer or occupier of business or industrial premises) to carry out a fire risk assessment. Responsible persons under the FSO are required, following a risk assessment, to implement appropriate fire safety measures to minimise the risk to life from fire; and to keep the assessment up to date.

Local fire and rescue services and in certain premises the Health & Safety Executive, MoD and local authority environmental health departments will administer the order. Inspectors will be allowed to inspect premises, question people and identify the ‘Responsible Person’ (RP) and the ‘Competent Person’ (CP). If you do not meet the requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, the fire authority can issue a formal notice to prevent all or part of your premises being used.

You could face two years in prison and also a heavy fine of £5,000 as well as carrying the moral burden of not appearing to care about your staff, customers and other visitors. This is in addition to having your business or building possibly closed down but certainly its effectiveness seriously compromised.

In the event of a fire at your premises, it is quite possible that your insurance company may dispute making payment if you haven’t got actioned and recorded risk assessments. Do not forget that the (pre October 2006) fire certificates lost their legal status from 1 October 2006 onwards.

If you share a building with others, you will need to co-ordinate your risk management plan with them.
If your plan changes as a result of a review or changes you made to your premises over time, you will need to share the revised risk management plan with others who share the premises.

The term 'competent person' is contained within three articles of the Order. These deal with fire fighting and fire detection; procedures for serious and imminent danger and for danger areas; and safety assistance.
In each case the term is explained as referring to a person who '… has sufficient training and experience or knowledge and other qualities …' to implement the requirements of the article.

Possibly. Fire and Rescue Authorities as the enforcing authorities for the Order are expected to develop appropriate risk based inspection regimes within the context of their Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP). How each Authority carries out its statutory duties is a matter for local discretion.