Building Fire Safety (Fee Unit Conversion) Amendment Regulation 2022 (Qld)

1   Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Building Fire Safety (Fee Unit Conversion) Amendment Regulation 2022.

2   Regulation amended

This regulation amends the Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008.

3   Insertion of new s 4A

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4A   Rounding of amounts expressed as numbers of fee units

(1)This section applies for working out the amount of a fee expressed in this regulation as a number of fee units.

(2)For the purpose of the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 48C(3), the amount is to be rounded down to the nearest multiple of 5 cents.

Example—

Section 64A(3)(b) provides for a fee of 62.05 fee units. If the value of a fee unit for this regulation were $1.015, the number of dollars obtained by multiplying $1.015 by 62.05 would be $62.98075. After rounding down, the amount of the fee would be $62.95.

4   Amendment of s 64A (Fee for assessing or inspecting required special fire services)

(1)Section 64A(3)(a), ‘$250.50’—
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250.50 fee units

(2)Section 64A(3)(b), ‘$62.05’—
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62.05 fee units

5   Amendment of s 74 (Preliminary meeting fee for proposed building development application)

Section 74(2)(a)(ii) and (b), ‘$644.20’—
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644.20 fee units

6   Amendment of s 75 (Fee for fire safety report for a building)

Section 75(2), ‘$161.80’—
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161.80 fee units

7   Amendment of sch 2 (Fees for assessment and inspection of required special fire services)

(1)Schedule 2, part 1—
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Part 1    Base fee for stated building work

Area of stated building work	Base fee
Fee units
1	Base fee for stated building work that is to have a floor area of not more than 700m2	1,675.20
2	Base fee for stated building work that is to have a floor area of more than 700m2 but not more than 1,100m2	3,017.10
3	Base fee for stated building work that is to have a floor area of more than 1,100m2 but not more than 1,500m2	3,690.85
4	Base fee for stated building work that is to have a floor area of more than 1,500m2 but not more than 2,000m2	4,042.50
5	Base fee for stated building work that is to have a floor area of more than 2,000m2	4,218.30 plus 31.90 fee units for each 100m2, or part of 100m2, over 2,000m2

(2)Schedule 2, parts 3 and 4—
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Part 3    Additional assessment and inspection fees for fire engineering briefs

Fee units
1	Research fee (ss 62(1)(b) and 63(2)(a))—
(a)  for evaluation of 1 subsystem	1,640.30
(b)  for evaluation of 2 to 5 subsystems	2,694.80
(c)  for evaluation of more than 5 subsystems	5,390.25
2	Fire engineering brief consultation fee (s 62(1)(c))	5,155.80
3	Fire engineering brief meeting fee (s 62(1)(d))—
(a)  for attendance at not more than 3 fire engineering brief meetings	nil
(b)  for attendance at the fourth and each subsequent fire engineering brief meeting—for each hour, or part of an hour, of the meeting	644.20
4	Minor performance meeting fee (s 63(2)(b))	1,675.20

Part 4    Other assessment and inspection fees

Fee units
1	Reassessment fee for assessing amended plans (s 65(2))—for each hour, or part of an hour, during which the service assesses amended plans	644.20
2	General inspection fee for an interim inspection or inspection (ss 66(2), 67(2) and 69(2))—for each hour, or part of an hour, of the inspection	644.20
3	Reinspection fee for an additional inspection (s 68(2))—
(a)  for the first hour, or part of the first hour, of the inspection	1,288.65
(b)  for each additional hour, or part of an additional hour, of the inspection	644.20