Northern Territory Numbered Regulations Northern Territory Numbered Regulations(1) The owner or occupier of a prescribed building in an emergency response area must ensure that all persons who work in the building are, not later than 30 days after commencing work in the building and thereafter at intervals not longer than 12 months while they continue to work in the building, given instruction on measures for the protection of persons in the building from fire and other fire related emergencies.
Penalty: 100 penalty units.
(2) The instruction must include information relating to –
(a) the means of access to and escape from the building;
(b) the location of fire-fighting equipment available in the building and the method of use of the equipment;
(c) the location of warning apparatus in the building and the method of use of the apparatus; and
(d) for persons nominated as fire wardens for areas of the building –
(i) conducting other persons to the means of escape referred to in paragraph (a) or a place of safety; and
(ii) the methods of accounting for persons and reporting to the person for the time being in charge of the building or the Director.
(3) The owner or occupier of a prescribed building in an emergency response area must keep a register containing details of –
(a) the information to be given to persons working in the building;
(b) the name of the person responsible for giving the instruction required by this regulation and the date on which such instruction was given; and
(c) the names of the persons or the groups of persons to whom instruction was given and a description of the kind of instruction given.
(4) The owner or occupier must produce the register for inspection on demand by a member.
(5) The owner or occupier of a prescribed building in an emergency response area must ensure that the requirements of AS 3745 are applied to safety systems that are installed in the building.
Penalty: 100 penalty units.
(6) The owner or occupier of a prescribed building in an emergency response area must ensure that –
(a) exit lights, emergency lighting and fire-fighting equipment are maintained in accordance with relevant standards;
(b) there is no obstruction of designated fire exits or the path of travel to those exits;
(c) combustible material is not stored in or in the vicinity of stairways;
(d) designated fire exits are –
(i) fitted with locking devices that comply with the relevant Australian Standard and any legislative requirements; and
(ii) not fitted with any non-compliant locking devices; and
(e) if any law provides for a maximum permissible number of persons that may be in the building at any time – the number of persons in the building does not exceed the maximum.
Penalty: 100 penalty units.
(7) In this regulation –
"prescribed building" means a building of type specified in Schedule 2 or a building declared by the Director under section 27B of the Act.