New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OPERATIONS (NOISE CONTROL) REGULATION 2008 - REG 53

53 Use of building intruder alarms

(1) The occupier of any premises must not cause or permit a building intruder alarm installed on those premises to be used so as to emit noise that can be heard within a habitable room in any residential premises, (regardless of whether any door or window to that room is open), unless the alarm is so constructed and regulated that:

(a) in the case of an alarm installed before 1 December 1997:

(i) it automatically ceases to sound, whether continuously or intermittently, within 10 minutes after being activated by a detection device, and

(ii) it cannot be reactivated (except by a different detection device) until it has been manually or automatically reset, or

(b) in the case of an alarm installed on or after 1 December 1997:

(i) it automatically ceases to sound, whether continuously or intermittently, within 5 minutes after being activated by a detection device, and

(ii) it cannot be reactivated (except by a different detection device) until it has been manually reset.

Maximum penalty:

(a) if the alarm is sounded, whether continuously or intermittently, for a period that does not exceed 4 hours--100 penalty units in the case of a corporation, 50 penalty units in the case of an individual, or

(b) if the alarm is sounded, whether continuously or intermittently, for a period that exceeds 4 hours but does not exceed 8 hours--200 penalty units in the case of a corporation, 100 penalty units in the case of an individual, or

(c) if the alarm is sounded, whether continuously or intermittently, for a period that exceeds 8 hours--300 penalty units in the case of a corporation, 150 penalty units in the case of an individual.

(2) A building intruder alarm that sounds intermittently is taken to sound continuously for the purpose of measuring the period of time for which it sounds.