(1) Subject to this
regulation and regulation 9A, the maximum number of persons that may be
accommodated in a public building other than large licensed premises shall be
ascertained in accordance with the Table to this subregulation.
Table
(2) The Chief Health
Officer, may on application by the owner and after consulting the local
government vary the ratio for any standing viewing area of spectator
accommodation to 0.3 m 2 per person.
(3) Where no provision
is made in the Table to subregulation (1) in relation to a particular
public building or a particular class of public building other than large
licensed premises the maximum number of persons that may be accommodated in
the public building or a public building of that class shall be such number as
is approved by the Chief Health Officer after consulting the local government.
(4) If, immediately
before the coming into operation of the Health (Public Buildings) Amendment
Regulations 2002 1 —
(a) a
certificate of approval was in effect in relation to licensed premises having
a floor area of 850 m 2 or less; and
(b) the
maximum number of persons that the licensed premises could be used to
accommodate was more than the new maximum number,
the maximum number of
persons that may be accommodated in those licensed premises is the number set
out in that certificate of approval.
(5) In
subregulation (4) —
new maximum number means the maximum number of
persons that may be accommodated in the licensed premises as ascertained in
accordance with the Table to subregulation (1) immediately after the
coming into operation of the Health (Public Buildings) Amendment
Regulations 2002 1 .
[Regulation 7 amended: Gazette
3 Aug 2001 p. 3957‑8 and 3965 (disallowed: Gazette
20 Nov 2001 p. 6012); 7 Jun 2002 p. 2723‑4
and 2731; 11 Feb 2004 p. 533; 10 Jan 2017
p. 277.]