19Operability of emergency lighting

19 Operability of emergency lighting

(1)  In this regulation –

required emergency lighting, of a prescribed building, means the emergency lighting that, under any building controls, is required to be installed in the building.

(2)  The occupier of a prescribed building must ensure that its required emergency lighting is operational at all times.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 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.

(3)  In any proceedings for an offence under subregulation (2) , 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 inoperability of the relevant emergency lighting was an unavoidable consequence of those works or had been approved by a building surveyor for the purposes of those works.