Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Building Regulations 2006 - SECT 113

Fire performance requirements-alternative solutions

113. Fire performance requirements-alternative solutions

Despite anything to the contrary in the BCA, a relevant building surveyor must
not determine that an alternative solution complies with a fire performance
requirement of the BCA unless the relevant building surveyor-

   (a)  either-

   (i)  holds the Graduate Certificate in Performance Based Building and Fire
        Codes from Victoria University of Technology; or

   (ii) holds a qualification that the Building Practitioners Board considers
        is equivalent to that Certificate; or

   (b)  relies on a certificate under section 238 of the Act by a fire safety
        engineer, who did not design the building work, which states that the
        alternative solution complies with that performance requirement; or

   (c)  relies on a certificate under section 238 of the Act by a registered
        building surveyor, who did not design the building work, which states
        that the alternative solution complies with that performance
        requirement; or

   (d)  relies on a determination of the Building Appeals Board under section
        160A of the Act that the alternative solution complies with that
        performance requirement; or

   (e)  relies on a Certificate of Accreditation issued by the Building
        Regulations Advisory Committee which states that the alternative
        solution complies with that performance requirement; or

   (f)  relies on a Certificate of Conformity issued by the Australian
        Building Codes Board which states that the alternative solution
        complies with that performance requirement; or

   (g)  relies on a report of the chief officer under regulation 309, which
        states that the chief officer is satisfied that a satisfactory degree
        of fire safety is achieved by that alternative solution.