Building Amendment (Installation of Solar Panels) Regulations 2013 (TAS)

Building Amendment (Installation of Solar Panels) Regulations 2013

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under section 230 of the Building Act 2000 .4 November 2013

PETER G. UNDERWOOD

Governor

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. J. O’BYRNE

Minister for Workplace Relations

1Short titleThese regulations may be cited as the Building Amendment (Installation of Solar Panels) Regulations 2013 . 2CommencementThese regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette. 3Principal RegulationsIn these regulations, the Building Regulations 2004 are referred to as the Principal Regulations. 4Regulation 4 amended (Certain buildings and building work exempt from requirement for building permit) Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (r) and substituting the following paragraph: (r) photo-voltaic solar panels installed on a building roof if – (i) the solar panels are installed by a person who holds a valid accreditation, to install solar panels, that is approved by the Director for the purposes of this regulation; and (ii) the solar panels are parallel to the surface of the roof and there is not more than 100 millimetres between the surface of the roof and the underside of the solar panels; and (iii) the solar panels, or any part of the solar panels, do not overhang the roof surface at any point; and (iv) the solar panels are not within 200 millimetres of the edge of the plane of the roof; and (v) the solar panel array does not result in more than 100 kilograms of dead load being placed on any single point where a solar panel array is attached to the roof; and (vi) the solar panel array does not cover more than 38 square metres of – (A) a single roof plane; or (B) multiple roof planes that are supported by a single structure;

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 6 November 2013

These regulations are administered in the Department of Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation) These regulations amend the