Health (Public Buildings) Amendment Regulations 1994 (WA)

5914	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	[25 November 1994
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HEALTH ACT 1911

HEALTH (PUBLIC BUILDINGS) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1994

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Health (Public Buildings)

Amendment Regulations 1994.

Regulation 17 amended

2.      Regulation 17 of the Health (Public Buildings) Regulations 1992* is

amended by repealing subregulation (4) and substituting the following

subregulations

building is provided by an air conditioning system, the system (4) Where the ventilation of an occupied space in a public

shall be designed and installed so as to —

(a) maintain the dry bulb temperature of air in the

occupied space —

if a function of the system is to cool air, at not

(i)       more than 27° Celsius; and

(ii)      if a function of the system is to heat air, at not

less than 19° Celsius;

(b) maintain the dew point temperature of air in the

occupied space at not more than 17° Celsius; and

(c) distribute air evenly throughout the occupied space at

any speed not exceeding 0.25 metres per second.

(5) In this regulation —

(a) a reference to an air conditioning system is a

By His Excellency's Command, M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Council.

reference to equipment —

(i)       for the purpose of controlling; or

(ii)      for purposes including the control of,

the temperature of air in an occupied space, but is not a reference to evaporative cooling equipment; and

(b) a reference to an occupied space in a public building is a reference to any area usually occupied by people when the building is in use that is between a floor, the floor and 60cm from fixed equipment that is, or 180cm above the floor, 60cm from walls adjacent to

forms part of, an air conditioning system. ff

[* Published in Gazette of 1 April 1992 at p. 1427-58.]