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119C Warning signs

(1) The owner of affected residential premises must ensure that a compliant warning sign is displayed at any place at the premises that is prescribed by the regulations.

(2) This section does not require the owner of a lot in a strata scheme to display a compliant warning sign at any part of the premises that is not comprised in the lot.

(3) If affected residential premises are the subject of a strata scheme, the owners corporation for the scheme must ensure that a compliant warning sign is displayed at any place at the premises that is prescribed by the regulations and consists of common property.

(4) A person must not remove, or cause or permit to be removed, a compliant warning sign from affected residential premises.

(5) Despite subsection (4), a compliant warning sign may be removed from affected residential premises by a person authorised under section 126(1) to enter the premises.

(6) The Secretary may, by order published in the Gazette, extend the application of this section to any premises specified in the order if the Secretary is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the premises contain loose-fill asbestos insulation.

(7) In this section--

"affected residential premises" includes any premises in relation to which an order under this section is in force.

"compliant warning sign" means a sign about loose-fill asbestos insulation that complies with any requirements (including any requirements about its display) prescribed by the regulations.

"lot" ,
"owners corporation" and
"strata scheme" have the same meanings as in the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 .

: Maximum penalty--200 penalty units in the case of a corporation and 50 penalty units in any other case.