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Disability (Access to Premises — Buildings) Amendment (2024 Measures No. 1) Standards 2024

I, Mark Dreyfus KC, Attorney-General, make the following Standards under subsection 31(1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

Dated 21 November 2024   

Mark Dreyfus KC

Attorney-General

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Disability (Access to Premises — Buildings) Standards 2010

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Disability (Access to Premises Buildings) Amendment (2024 Measures No. 1) Standards 2024.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

 

Note 1: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

Note 2: This instrument takes effect subject to subsection 31(4) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 31(1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Disability (Access to Premises — Buildings) Standards 2010

1  Subsection 4.5(1)

Omit “AS 1428.1—2009”, substitute “AS 1428.1—2021”.

2  Clause A3.1 of Schedule 1 (table 1)

Repeal the table (not including the heading), substitute:

No.

Date

Title

Provision(s) of Access Code

AS 1428

 

Design for access and mobility

 

Part 1

2021

General requirements for access — New building work

A1.1, D3.1, D3.2, D3.3, D3.6, D3.9, D3.10, D3.12, D5.2, D5.3, F2.4

Part 1

2001

General requirements for access — New building work

H2.7, H2.8, H2.10, H2.15

Part 1
(Supplement 1)

1993

General requirements for access — Buildings — Commentary

H2.2

Part 2

1992

Enhanced and additional requirements — Buildings and facilities

H2.2, H2.3, H2.4, H2.5, H2.7, H2.10, H2.11, H2.12, H2.13, H2.14

Part 4

1992

Tactile ground surface indicators for the orientation of people with vision impairment

H2.11

AS/NZS 1428

 

Design for access and mobility

 

Part 4.1

2009

Means to assist the orientation of people with vision impairment — Tactile ground surface indicators (incorporating amendments 1 and 2)

D3.8

AS 1735

 

Lifts, escalators and moving walks (SAA Lift Code)

 

Part 12

1999

Facilities for persons with disabilities (incorporating amendment 1)

E3.6, H2.6

AS/NZS 2890

 

Parking facilities

 

Part 6

2009

Offstreet parking for people with disabilities

D3.5

AS 4586

2013

Slip resistance classification of new pedestrian surface materials (incorporating amendment 1)

F3.2

Transport Standards

2002

 

F2.9, H2.1

3  Subparagraph D3.3(a)(i) of Schedule 1

Omit “clause 10”, substitute “clause 7”.

4  Subparagraph D3.3(a)(ii) of Schedule 1

Omit “clause 11”, substitute “clause 8”.

5  At the end of subparagraph D3.3(a)(ii) of Schedule 1

Add “and”.

6  Subparagraph D3.3(a)(iii) of Schedule 1

Omit “clause 11.1(f) and (g)”, substitute “clause 8.1(f) and (g)”.

7  At the end of subparagraph D3.3(a)(iii) of Schedule 1

Add “and”.

8  At the end of paragraph D3.3(b) of Schedule 1

Add “and”.

9  At the end of sub-subparagraph D3.3(c)(ii)(B) of Schedule 1

Add “and”.

10  At the end of paragraphs D3.3(d) and (e) of Schedule 1

Add “and”.

11  Subparagraph D3.3(f)(ii) of Schedule 1

Omit “200 m²;”, substitute “200 m².”.

12  Paragraphs D3.3(g) and (h) of Schedule 1

Repeal the paragraphs.