Queensland Consolidated Regulations

BUILDING FIRE SAFETY REGULATION 2008 - REG 54

54 Maintenance of prescribed fire safety installations

(1) The occupier of a building must ensure that maintenance of each prescribed fire safety installation for the building is carried out by an appropriately qualified person.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) The occupier of a building must ensure each prescribed fire safety installation for the building is inspected and tested at intervals in compliance with QDC, part MP6.1.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (4) applies if the record of maintenance for a prescribed fire safety installation for a building shows that repair or other corrective action is required for the installation.

(4) The occupier of the building must ensure the repair is carried out or the corrective action is taken no later than 1 month after the maintenance of the installation was carried out, unless the occupier has a reasonable excuse.

Examples of a reasonable excuse—

• No appropriately qualified person was available to attend the occupier’s premises to carry out the repair or take the corrective action because of the remoteness of the building’s location.

• The repair or corrective action was not able to be finished because of the complexity of the work involved or delay in obtaining parts required for the repair or corrective action.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.