26AReport of Chief Officer for certificates of likely compliance (notifiable building work)

26A Report of Chief Officer for certificates of likely compliance (notifiable building work)

[Regulation 26A Inserted by S.R. 2017, No. 104, Applied:27 Dec 2017]

(1)  For the purposes of section 98(1)(g) of the Act, a report from the Chief Officer is a prescribed matter to be taken into account in relation to a certificate of likely compliance (notifiable building work) if the notifiable building work proposed to be performed under that certificate involves –

(a) the addition, alteration or removal of fire safety requirements; or

(b) the non-provision of fire safety requirements in circumstances where those fire safety requirements may be required to be provided.

(2)  Subregulation (1) does not apply in respect of work relating to fire safety requirements that is determined by the Director of Building Control to be minor in nature.

(3)  A building surveyor who receives an application for a certificate of likely compliance (notifiable building work) in respect of which a report is required under subregulation (1) is to submit to the Chief Officer within the specified period –

(a) a written request, in an approved form, for the report; and

(b) any relevant drawings, specifications or other documents that relate to the relevant work.

(4)  On receipt of a written request under subregulation (3) in respect of proposed notifiable building work, the Chief Officer is to prepare a report, in an approved form, that –

(a) states, in the opinion of the Chief Officer, whether or not each deemed-to-satisfy solution that –

(i) is to be used as part of the proposed work; and

(ii) relates to the operational suitability of fire safety requirements –

is satisfactory to meet the relevant performance requirements of the National Construction Code; and

(b) may state, in the opinion of the Chief Officer, whether or not each performance solution that –