Environmental Planning and Assessment (Development Certification and Fire Safety) Regulation 2021

This section applies to a person who—

grants a development consent for a change of building use, other than by a complying development certificate, if building work is not—

proposed by the applicant for the consent, or

required by the consent authority, or

issues a complying development certificate for the erection of a building or a change of building use, or

issues a construction certificate for building work, or

gives a relevant order or accepts an undertaking in relation to premises.

A person must—

issue a schedule (a fire safety schedule)—

in the approved form, and

containing the matters specified in section 79, and

ensure the requirements of this section relating to the fire safety schedule are complied with.

for a corporation—300 penalty units, or

for an individual—150 penalty units.

For a relevant order in relation to which a further order is made under the Act, Schedule 5, clause 1, the fire safety schedule must be issued when the further order is made.

A fire safety schedule is not required to be issued if—

the work for which a complying development certificate or construction certificate will be issued relates only to—

an alteration to a hydraulic fire safety system, or

the installation of a fixed on-site pumpset and the construction of a new external pumphouse to accommodate the pumpset, and

the carrying out of the work will not result in a permanent reduction of the fire protection provided by the existing hydraulic fire safety system that will be the subject of the work, and

there is notice of past, current or proposed action by or on behalf of a water utility to—

install mains pressure reduction capability, or

implement mains pressure reduction.

A copy of the fire safety schedule must be attached to the relevant development consent, construction certificate, relevant order or undertaking.

The attached fire safety schedule is taken to form part of the development consent, construction certificate, relevant order or undertaking.

An earlier fire safety schedule is superseded by a later fire safety schedule and ceases to have effect when the later fire safety schedule is issued.

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