BUILDING REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 31D

BUILDING REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 31D

31D .         Applicable building standards for relocated buildings and incidental structures (other than swimming pools) (s. 3, 19(3) and 37(1) and (2))

(1AA)         In this regulation —

        relevant building has the meaning given in regulation 31BA(1A).

        (1A)         This regulation does not apply to a swimming pool.

        (1)         For the purposes of the definition of applicable building standard in section 3, the building standards set out in subregulation (2) are prescribed as applicable building standards for the purposes of sections 19(3) and 37(1) and (2) in respect of the assembly, reassembly or securing of a relocated building or a relocated incidental structure.

        (2)         For subregulation (1), the applicable building standards are the requirements in relation to the technical aspects of the construction of the relocated building or incidental structure that were imposed under the written law applicable at the time the relocated building or incidental structure was first assembled, except to the extent that subregulations (3), (4) and (5) of this regulation otherwise provide.

        (3)         The applicable building standards include those that relate to a performance requirement that is —

            (a)         listed in the Table; and

            (b)         applicable to buildings or incidental structures of the classification of the relocated building or incidental structure; and

            (c)         set out in the edition of the Building Code —

                  (i)         for sections 19(3) or 37(1) — mentioned in regulation 31A(2)(a) or (b); or

                  (ii)         for section 37(2) — in effect at the time the assembly, reassembly or securing of the relocated building or incidental structure commenced.

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        [(3A)         deleted]

        (4)         The applicable building standards include those that relate to a performance requirement that is —

            (a)         listed in the Table; and

            (b)         applicable to buildings or incidental structures —

                  (i)         of the classification of the relocated building or incidental structure; and

                  (ii)         in the geographical area where the relocated building or incidental structure was first assembled;

                and

            (c)         set out in the edition of the Building Code in effect —

                  (i)         if subparagraph (ii) does not apply — at the time of, or 12 months before, the first application for a building permit to assemble the relocated building or incidental structure (whichever was applied by the building surveyor in respect of the building or incidental structure); or

                  (ii)         if no building permit to assemble the relocated building or incidental structure has ever been required — at the time of the first assembly of the relocated building or incidental structure.

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        Note for this subregulation:

                This subregulation does not apply if the conditions in paragraph (c) cannot be met because —

            (a)         a building permit to assemble the relocated building or incidental structure has been required but none has ever been applied for; or

            (b)         no edition of the Building Code was in effect at the relevant time mentioned in paragraph (c).

        (5)         The bush fire performance requirements are not applicable building standards for the purposes of the section set out in Column 1 of the Table in the circumstances set out in Column 2 of the Table opposite the section.

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        [Regulation 31D inserted: Gazette 18 Dec 2012 p. 6564-7; amended: Gazette 24 Apr 2014 p. 1136; 15 Apr 2016 p. 1169; 9 Mar 2018 p. 800; 26 Mar 2019 p. 945 and 946; SL 2020/46 r. 6; SL 2021/42 r. 7; SL 2022/162 r. 10.]