Fire Safety Statements

(1) The owner of a building must maintain each essential fire safety measure for the building

         (a) for an essential fire safety measure specified in a fire safety schedule—to a standard no less than that 

               designed and implemented.  or 

         (b) for an essential fire safety measure applicable to the building but not specified in the fire safety 

                 schedule (an original measure)—to a standard no less than that to which the measure was originally 

                 designed and implemented. 

Note— Some pre-1997 buildings may not have a fire safety schedule but essential fire safety measures still apply.

(2) The owner of a building to which an original measure applies may request from the council a schedule of

       the original measures for the building. 

(3) The council must provide the schedule to the owner as soon as practicable after receiving the request

• Access panels, doors and hoppers to fire-resisting shafts
• Automatic fail-safe devices
• Automatic fire detection and alarm systems
• Automatic fire suppression systems
• Emergency lifts
• Emergency lighting
• Emergency warning and intercommunication
• systems
• Exit signs
• Fire control centres and rooms
• Fire dampers
• Fire doors
• Fire hose reel systems
• Fire hydrant systems
• Fire seals protecting openings in fire-resisting components of the building
• Fire shutters
• Fire windows
• Lightweight construction
• Mechanical air handling systems
• Perimeter vehicle access for emergency vehicles
• Portable fire extinguishers
• Safety curtains in proscenium openings
• Smoke alarms and heat alarms
• Smoke and heat vents
• Smoke dampers
• Smoke detectors and heat detectors
• Smoke doors
• Solid core doors
• Standby power systems
• Wall-wetting sprinkler and drencher systems
• Warning and operational signs