BUILDING FIRE SAFETY REGULATION 2008 - REG 54
Maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations
BUILDING FIRE SAFETY REGULATION 2008 - REG 54
Maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations
54 Maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations
(1) The occupier of a building must ensure that maintenance of each prescribed
fire safety installation for the building is carried out by an appropriately
qualified person.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.
(2)
The occupier of a building must ensure each prescribed fire safety
installation for the building is inspected and tested at intervals in
compliance with QDC, part MP6.1.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—30 penalty
units.
(3) Subsection (4) applies if the record of maintenance for a
prescribed fire safety installation for a building shows that repair or other
corrective action is required for the installation.
(4) The occupier of the
building must ensure the repair is carried out or the corrective action is
taken no later than 1 month after the maintenance of the installation was
carried out, unless the occupier has a reasonable excuse.
Examples of a
reasonable excuse—
• No appropriately qualified person was available to
attend the occupier’s premises to carry out the repair or take the
corrective action because of the remoteness of the building’s location.
•
The repair or corrective action was not able to be finished because of the
complexity of the work involved or delay in obtaining parts required for the
repair or corrective action.
