This report indicates that you have been maintaining the Essential Safety Measures within your a building in the past year.

1208 Owner must prepare annual report

(1) An owner of a building or place of public entertainment, in respect of which a condition on an occupancy permit lists an essential
safety measure or a maintenance determination has been made, must ensure that an annual essential safety measures report is
prepared in accordance with regulation 1209 before each anniversary of the relevant anniversary date.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.

(2)	In this regulation relevant anniversary date means—

(a)

the date of issue of the occupancy permit or the date of making of the maintenance determination; or

(b)

if more than one occupancy permit or maintenance determination or both is issued or made, the earliest date of issue or making of those documents.

Note
Regulation 2001 deems an annual essential safety measures report prepared in accordance with regulation 1209 of the Building
(Interim) Regulations 2005 before 13 June 2006 to be an annual essential safety measures report prepared in accordance
with this regulation.

1209 Contents and form of annual report

The annual essential safety measures report for the purposes of regulation 1208 must-

	(a)	be in a form approved by the Commission; and
	(b)	be signed by the owner or an agent of the owner; and
	(c)	specify the address of the building or place of public entertainment that it relates to; and
	(d)	include the details of any inspection report made under section 227E of the Act in respect of each essential safety measure; and
	(e)	include a statement that the owner or an agent of the owner has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that—

	(i)	each essential safety measure is operating at the required level of performance and has been maintained in accordance with the relevant occupancy permit or maintenance determination and will fulfil its purpose; and
	(ii)	since the last annual essential safety measures report, there have been no penetrations to required fire-resisting construction, smoke curtains and the like in the building or place, other than those for which a building permit has been issued; and
	(iii)	since the last annual essential safety measures report, there have been no changes to materials or assemblies that must comply with particular fire hazard properties, other than those for which a building permit has been issued; and
	(iv)	the information contained in the report is correct.

1215 Contents and form of annual report for building or place constructed before 1 July 1994

The annual essential safety measures report for the purposes of regulation 1214 must-

	(a)	be in a form approved by the Commission; and
	(b)	be signed by the owner or an agent of the owner; and
	(c)	specify the address of the building or place of public entertainment that it relates to; and
	(d)	include the details of any inspection report made under section 227E of the Act in respect of each essential safety measure; and
	(e)	include a statement that the owner or an agent of the owner has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that each essential safety measure—

	(i)	is operating and has been maintained in a state that enables the essential safety measure to fulfil its purpose; and
	(ii)	since the last annual essential safety measures report, there have been no penetrations to required fire-resisting construction, smoke curtains and the like in the building or place, other than those for which a building permit has been issued; and
	(iii)	since the last annual essential safety measures report, there have been no changes to materials or assemblies that must comply with particular fire hazard properties, other than those for which a building permit has been issued; and
	(iv)	the information contained in the report is correct.