There are new requirements for smoke alarms in all dwellings (being houses or units) from 1 January this year.<\/p>\n
The rules are not retrospective but they will apply when a dwelling is relet (whether to a new or existing tenant).<\/p>\n
You can click here for the QFES summary<\/a> and here for a more detailed explanation<\/a>. The OFT<\/a> also has a section on it.<\/p>\n All property managers should make sure their clients are aware of the requirements to comply with the new rules. There is little doubt where liability would sit if there was a fire and the smoke alarms were not compliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are new requirements for smoke alarms in all dwellings (being houses or units) from 1 January this year. The rules are not retrospective but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1074,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_mbp_gutenberg_autopost":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landlords-tenants-renting-and-management","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonsitemanager.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}