Fire Safety Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Fire Prevention in Buildings
35. Fire certificate
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This section applies only to buildings or classes of buildings that the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, designates.
A person must not —
occupy or use a building; or
permit a building owned or managed by the person to be occupied or used, unless there is a fire certificate authorising the occupation or use.
An application for a fire certificate for a building must be made in accordance with regulations made under this Act.
Any person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence.
In a prosecution for an offence under subsection (4) in relation to the use or occupation of a building, it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that the defendant knew that there was no fire certificate authorising the use or occupation of the building.
The offence under subsection (4) is a strict liability offence.[20