South Australian Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS 1993 - REG 4

4—Adoption of Building Code

        (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 two 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 one 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 two 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 two 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 .