Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

EMERGENCIES ACT 2004 - SECT 96

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person puts anything in a passageway, stairway or exit that people may use, or intend to use, for escape from premises if there is a fire; and

        (b)     the thing obstructs the passageway, stairway or exit; and

        (c)     the person is reckless about whether the thing obstructs the passageway, stairway or exit.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

    (2)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     does something to a door or exit in a passageway or stairway in premises that may prevent people using the door or exit to leave the premises if there is a fire; and

        (b)     is reckless about whether the thing would prevent people using the door or exit to leave the premises if there is a fire.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

    (3)     A person commits an offence if the person fixes a fire door, smoke door or exit door in an open or closed position in a way that is not approved by the chief officer (fire brigade).

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (4)     An offence against subsection (3) is a strict liability offence.