38Fire safety certificates

38 Fire safety certificates

38 Fire safety certificates

(1) This section applies to a building if—

(a) a completion approval is required for the building because of building work or a change of building use, and

(b) a fire safety schedule was required to be included in—

(i) for building work—the building approval or complying development certificate under which the building work is carried out, or

(ii) for a change of building use—the development consent or complying development certificate under which the change of building use is carried out.

(2) An approval authority must not issue a completion approval in relation to the building unless the approval authority has issued a fire safety certificate for the building.

Maximum penalty for subsection (2)—

(a) for an individual—300 penalty units, or

(b) otherwise—1,500 penalty units.