Fire Safety and Evacuation of Buildings Regulations 2006

  • revoked
  • Fire Safety and Evacuation of Buildings Regulations 2006: revoked, on 1 July 2018, by regulation 36 of the Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fire Safety, Evacuation Procedures, and Evacuation Schemes) Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/96).

Reprint as at 1 July 2018

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Fire Safety and Evacuation of Buildings Regulations 2006

(SR 2006/123)

Fire Safety and Evacuation of Buildings Regulations 2006: revoked, on 1 July 2018, by regulation 36 of the Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fire Safety, Evacuation Procedures, and Evacuation Schemes) Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/96).

Silvia Cartwright, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 15th day of May 2006

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

These regulations are administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.

Pursuant to section 92(1) and (2) of the Fire Service Act 1975, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

Contents

1Title
2Commencement
3Interpretation
Part 1
Fire safety for buildings described in Schedule 1
Means of escape from fire for building
4Owner of building must maintain means of escape from fire for building
5Flammable cleaning liquid and flammable material not to be stored near or in means of escape from fire for building
Evacuation of building
6Owner of building must provide evacuation procedure
7Tenants of building must follow evacuation procedure
8Owners or tenants of certain buildings must have employees trained to assist occupants to evacuate
Appliances
9Appliances
Open flames
10Control of open flames
Packing and unpacking of goods
11Packing and unpacking of goods
Storage of certain materials
12Storage of certain materials inside and outside buildings
Firefighting equipment for use by building’s occupants
13Firefighting equipment for use by building’s occupants
Offences
14Offences
Part 2
Evacuation schemes for buildings described in section 21A(1) of Act
Prescribed matters (other than forms)
15Minimum amounts of hazardous substances prescribed
16Automatic sprinkler systems prescribed
Evacuation schemes
17General matters to be included in evacuation scheme
18Matters to be included in evacuation scheme in relation to persons with disability
19Matters to be included in evacuation scheme for certain buildings with automatic sprinkler systems
Applications for approval of evacuation scheme
20Applications for approval of evacuation scheme for new building
21Applications for approval of evacuation scheme for existing building
22Prescribed form for voluntary application for approval of evacuation scheme
23National Commander must decide whether to approve application no later than 20 working days after its receipt
Notification for building for which no evacuation scheme required
24Prescribed form of notification for building for which no evacuation scheme required
Revocation
25Revocation
Schedule 1
Buildings to which Part 1 applies
Schedule 2
Minimum amounts of hazardous substances for purposes of section 21A(1)(d) of Act
Schedule 3
Requirements relating to evacuation schemes
Schedule 4
Forms
Gazette Information
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