AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

BUILDING ACT 1972

BUILDING (ACT APPENDIX TO THE BUILDING CODE OF AUSTRALIA) DETERMINATION 2002

Disallowable instrument DI2002—63

	EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Section 24 of the Building Act 1972 (the Act) deals with the version of the Building Code of Australia that is in force in the ACT.  The Building Code of Australia applies throughout Australia and is divided into two volumes, “Class 2 to 9 buildings” and “Housing provisions”, each of which consists of a main text and a group of additional or substituted provisions for each State and Territory.  In each part of Australia the applicable version consists of the main text as modified by these additional or substituted provisions.  

The Australian Building Codes Board produces the Building Code of Australia.  Periodically the Australian Building Codes Board prepares and publishes amendments to the main text and the Territory amends the ACT Appendix.  The last changes to the ACT Appendix were published with Amendment 9 to the 1996 edition of the Building Code of Australia.  This text is intended to be published with Amendment 11 to the 1996 edition of the Building Code of Australia.

This instrument adopts a new version of the ACT Appendix in which one change is made.  It corrects the wording of ACT 5.2.1 in the second volume of the Building Code of Australia so that it is consistent with the corresponding provisions in ACT F6.1 in the first volume.