Victorian Numbered Regulations

BUILDING AND PLUMBING AMENDMENT (BALCONY SPRINKLER PROTECTION) INTERIM REGULATIONS 2015 (SR NO 157 OF 2015) - REG 6

After clause 3 in Schedule 2 to the Plumbing Regulations 2008 ^[2] insert —

        ' 3A     Sprinkler protection for covered balconies

    (1)     The PCA is modified to the extent that AS 2118.1 is to be read as if there were substituted for Clause 5.7.10—

    " 5.7.10         Covered balconies

Covered balconies shall be sprinkler protected.".

    (2)     The modification to AS 2118.1 in subregulation (1) does not apply in relation to a Class 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9b building.

    (3)     In this regulation AS 2118.1  means AS 2118.1 Automatic fire sprinkler systems Part 1: General systems as issued, published or remade from time to time as incorporated by the PCA.'.