18Visibility of exit signs

18 Visibility of exit signs

(1)  The occupier of a prescribed building must ensure that each sign to each of its required exits is clearly and fully visible at all times.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 40 penalty units and, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding 1 penalty unit for each day during which the offence continues.

(2)  In any proceedings for an offence under subregulation (1) , it is a defence if the defendant establishes that, at the relevant time –

(a) lawful building or electrical works were being done in the relevant prescribed building; and

(b) those works were being done as quickly as practicable; and

(c) the invisibility of the relevant sign, whether full or partial, was an unavoidable consequence of those works or had been approved by a building surveyor for the purposes of those works.