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South Australia
Development (Building Rules Consent—Disability
Access) Amendment Bill 2011
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Development
Act 1993.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Commencement
3Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Development
Act 1993
4Amendment of
section 4—Interpretation
5Amendment of
section 53A—Requirement to up-grade building in certain
cases
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Development (Building Rules
Consent—Disability Access) Amendment Act 2011.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Development
Act 1993
4—Amendment
of section 4—Interpretation
Section 4(1)—after the definition of the Advisory
Committee insert:
affected part of a building in relation to which building
work is to be carried out means any of the following:
(a) the principal pedestrian entrance of the building;
(b) any part of the building that is necessary to provide a continuous
accessible path of travel from the entrance to the location of the building
work;
5—Amendment
of section 53A—Requirement to up-grade building in certain
cases
(1) Section 53A(1)—delete "prescribed date" and
substitute:
date prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this subsection
(2) Section 53A(2)(a)—delete "kind prescribed by the
regulations to a building constructed before 1 January 1980" and
substitute:
class prescribed by the regulations
(3) Section 53A(2)(b)—delete paragraph (b) and
substitute:
(b) the relevant authority is of the opinion that the affected part of the
building does not comply with the performance requirements of the Building Code
in relation to access to buildings, and facilities and services within
buildings, for people with disabilities,
(4) Section 53A(2)—delete "reasonably necessary to ensure that
the facilities for such access will be adequate" and substitute:
necessary to ensure that the affected part of the building will comply with
those performance requirements of the Building Code
(5) Section 53A(3)—delete subsection (3) and
substitute:
(3) However, the regulations may specify circumstances in which a relevant
authority may not require building work or other measures, or a specified kind
of building work or measure, to be carried out under
subsection (2).