Queensland Consolidated Regulations

BUILDING REGULATION 2006 - REG 16ZB

16ZB Giving copy of building fire safety risk assessment to lot owners and tenants

(1) This section applies if the building comprises 2 or more lots.

(2) If there is a body corporate roll kept for the building, the owner must give a copy of the building fire safety risk assessment to each lot owner, and each leasehold interest holder, for a lot in the building—

(a) for a person who is a lot owner or leasehold interest holder when the fire engineer statement is given to the owner—within 60 business days after the statement is given to the owner; or

(b) for another person—within 60 business days after the person’s name is entered on the body corporate’s roll.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) If there is no body corporate roll kept for the building, the owner must, within 60 business days after the fire engineer statement is given to the owner, leave a copy of the building fire safety risk assessment at, or post a copy of the assessment to, the address of each lot in the building.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(4) However, the owner is not required to comply with subsection (2) for a person, or subsection (3) for a lot, if any of the following happens before the period for complying with the subsection for the person or lot ends—

(a) the combustible cladding is removed from the building;

(b) a building certifier gives the owner a compliance certificate stating the combustible cladding complies with the BCA;

(c) 7 years have passed since a copy of the assessment was given to the QBCC.

(5) In this section—

"leasehold interest holder" , for a lot in a private building, means a person who holds a leasehold interest in the lot.

"lot owner" , for a lot in a private building, means a person mentioned in schedule 2 , definition owner , of a building or structure, paragraphs (a) (i) , (b)(i), (c)(i), (d)(i) or (e)(i) of the Act .