78Fire safety schedules

78 Fire safety schedules

78 Fire safety schedules

(1) This section applies to a person who—

(a) grants a development consent for a change of building use, other than by a complying development certificate, if building work is not—

(i) proposed by the applicant for the consent, or

(ii) required by the consent authority, or

(b) issues a complying development certificate for the erection of a building or a change of building use, or

(c) issues a construction certificate for building work, or

(d) gives a relevant order or accepts an undertaking in relation to premises.

(2) A person must—

(a) issue a schedule (a fire safety schedule)—

(i) in the approved form, and

(ii) containing the matters specified in section 79, and

(b) ensure the requirements of this section relating to the fire safety schedule are complied with.

Maximum penalty (subsection (2))—

(a) for a corporation—300 penalty units, or

(b) for an individual—150 penalty units.

(3) For a relevant order in relation to which a further order is made under the Act, Schedule 5, clause 1, the fire safety schedule must be issued when the further order is made.

(4) A fire safety schedule is not required to be issued if—

(a) the work for which a complying development certificate or construction certificate will be issued relates only to—

(i) an alteration to a hydraulic fire safety system, or

(ii) the installation of a fixed on-site pumpset and the construction of a new external pumphouse to accommodate the pumpset, and

(b) the carrying out of the work will not result in a permanent reduction of the fire protection provided by the existing hydraulic fire safety system that will be the subject of the work, and

(c) there is notice of past, current or proposed action by or on behalf of a water utility to—