Building Regulations 2012 (WA)

Western Australia

Building Act 2011

Western Australia

Building Act 2011

Building Regulations 2012

These regulations are the Building Regulations 2012.

These regulations come into operation as follows —

• (a)

  regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;

• (b)

  the rest of the regulations — on the day the Building Act 2011 Part 14 comes into operation.

In these regulations —

approved barrier solution, in relation to a swimming pool, means a performance solution used to comply with a Building Code pool barrier requirement that has been approved in accordance with regulation 51 by the permit authority for the swimming pool;

AS followed by a designation refers to the Australian Standard having that designation that is published by Standards Australia as referenced in the relevant edition of the Building Code;

AS 1926.1‑1993 means Australian Standard 1926 — Swimming pool safety Part 1: Fencing for swimming pools (1993 edition) incorporating Amendment No. 1 only;

AS 1926.1‑2012 means Australian Standard 1926 — Swimming pool safety Part 1: Safety barriers for swimming pools (2012 edition);

AS 3959 means Australian Standard AS 3959 — Construction of buildings in bushfire‑prone areas;

assessment method has the meaning given in the Building Code Volume One Schedule 1;

BAL —

• (a)

  in relation to a building site, means the bushfire attack level for the building or incidental structure in relation to that building site, as a measure of the severity of the building’s or structure’s potential exposure to attack by bush fire, determined in accordance with AS 3959; and

• (b)

  if followed by a hyphen and group of letters or numbers, means the bushfire attack level of that particular rating determined in accordance with AS 3959;

builder work has the meaning given in the Building Services (Registration) Regulations 2011 regulation 13(1);

Building Code has the meaning given in regulation 3A;

Building Code pool barrier requirement means a performance requirement set out in the Building Code that requires a barrier to be provided to a swimming pool that restricts access by young children to the swimming pool and its immediate surrounds;

building site, in relation to a building or incidental structure, means that part of a lot on which the building or incidental structure stands or is to be constructed;

bush fire performance requirement means —

• (a)

  the Building Code Volume One Part G5 performance requirement G5P1 in relation to the following —

• (i)

  a Class 2 or Class 3 building;

• (ii)

  a Class 10a building or deck if the building or deck is immediately adjacent or connected to a Class 2 building, a Class 3 building or a Class 9 vulnerable use building;

and

• (b)

  the Building Code Volume One Part G5 performance requirements G5P1 and G5P2 in relation to a Class 9 vulnerable use building; and

• (c)

  the Building Code Volume Two Part H7…