Building (ACT Appendix to the Building Code) Revocation 2015*
Disallowable Instrument DI2015—8
made under the 
Building Act 2004, s 136 (3) (Building Code)

1	Name of instrument 
This instrument is the Building (ACT Appendix to the Building Code) Revocation 2015.

2	Commencement 
This instrument commences on 1 May 2015.

3	Instrument revoked 
I revoke DI2012—248 (Building (ACT Appendix to the Building Code) Determination 2012).  

Note	The Building Act 2004, s 136 (Building Code), provides that the building code means the Building Code of Australia, prepared and published by the Australian Building Codes Board, as amended from time to time by that Board, and the ACT appendix to the code. The published code provides that it includes its published appendices, which include Commonwealth, State and Territory additions to the code, and that the code commences on 1 May for each republication.  Section 136 also provides that, to remove any doubt, the code includes the variations, additions and exclusions for the ACT contained in the code, including in an appendix to the code.  Section 136 entitles the Minister to make an ACT Appendix to the code.  This instrument revokes the respective instrument that had made the ACT Appendix.  In the absence of any other instrument making, or a regulation prescribing for, an ACT Appendix—the ACT Appendix will be as published as part of the building code, by the Board, as amended from time to time by the Board, as described under the above-mentioned section 136.

4	Access to ACT Appendix and building code
A copy of the published building code, including its appendices is available for inspection by members of the public between 9am and 4.30pm business days at the ACT Environment and Planning Directorate, Dame Pattie Menzies House, 16 Challis Street, Dickson, ACT, or for download from www.abcb.gov.au.  It is expected that from February 2015, they will be available at no cost to download from that link, and that they may be printed for personal use.

Mick Gentleman MLA
Minister for Planning
23 December 2014