BUILDING REGULATIONS 2018 - REG 194 Occupancy permit must specify essential safety measures and related requirements

BUILDING REGULATIONS 2018 - REG 194

    (1)     The relevant building surveyor or the Authority (as the case requires) must ensure that an occupancy permit (including that permit as amended from time to time) issued in relation

to a building or place of public entertainment specifies—

Reg. 194(1)(a) amended by S.R. No. 40/2019 reg. 17.

        (a)     all essential safety measures required to be provided for the building or place as part of the building work carried out under the building permit requiring the occupancy permit; and

        (b)     the level of performance, determined by the relevant building surveyor or the Authority (as the case requires), that each essential safety measure must achieve to fulfil its purpose; and

        (c)     the frequency and type of inspection, testing and maintenance required for each essential safety measure determined by the relevant building surveyor or the Authority (as the case requires).

    (2)     In determining matters in subregulation (1)(b) and (c), the relevant building surveyor or the Authority must specify the provision of the building regulations with which the installation and operation of the essential safety measure must comply and which sets out the frequency and type of inspection, testing and maintenance required for the essential safety measure.

    (3)     In this regulation—

"building" means—

        (a)     a Class 1b, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 building; and

        (b)     a Class 4 part of a building;

"provision of the building regulations" has the same meaning as in section 160 of the Act.

    (4)     This regulation does not apply in relation to a smoke alarm installed in a sole-occupancy unit in a Class 1b or 2 building or a Class 4 part of a building.