South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Subject to these
regulations, the Building Code is adopted by these regulations as part of the
Building Rules.
(2) The Building Code
is, for the purposes of its adoption by these regulations, modified in its
application to a strata scheme under the Strata Titles Act 1988 or a
community scheme under the Community Titles Act 1996 to the extent that a
boundary—
(a)
between a unit and common property that consists of or includes a road,
driveway, walkway or other thoroughfare, carpark, garden or open space
adjoining the boundary with the unit; or
(b)
between 2 units, or between a unit and common property, where the units or the
unit and common property (as the case may be) are within the 1 building,
will be disregarded as a fire source feature for the purposes of determining
requirements for fire-resistance of building elements.
(3)
Subregulation (2) does not derogate from—
(a) the
significance of the boundary between a unit and common property, or between 2
units, as described in paragraph (a) or (b) of that subregulation, for
the purposes of determining other requirements for fire-resistance of those
building elements under the Code; or
(b) the
significance of any other boundary of a unit or common property, or the
significance of the boundary of any other allotment, for the purposes of
determining requirements for fire-resistance of building elements (eg the far
boundary of a road adjoining the allotment, or a boundary between 2 units that
is not within a building).
(4) In this
regulation—
"unit" means a unit under the Strata Titles Act 1988 or a community lot
under the Community Titles Act 1996 .