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CurrentNotifying critical defects
Part 5Prescribed fire safety installations
Division 2Obligations of persons maintaining prescribed fire safety installations
53 Notifying critical defects
(1)
This section applies if a person who is carrying out, or has carried out, maintenance of a prescribed fire safety installation for a building, becomes aware, or ought reasonably to be aware, of a critical defect in the installation.
(2)
The person must give the occupier of the building a notice about the defect in the approved form (a critical defect notice) within 24 hours after the person carries out the maintenance of the installation.
Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.
Note—
Under QDC, part MP6.1, the occupier of the building must attach to the relevant occupier statement any critical defect notice given under this section.
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