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Section F Health and Amenity

Section F Health and Amenity

Part F2 Sanitary Facilities

Tas Table F2.3 Sanitary Facilities in Class 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 Buildings

Delete the Note in Table F2.3 alongside early childhood centres and replace it with the following:

Note:

If the centre accommodates children under 4 years of age the facilities for use by
those children must be—

  1. junior pans; and
  2. wash basins with a rim height not exceeding 600 mm.

After F2.8 insert Tas F2.101 as follows:

Tas F2.101 Non-flushed Urinals

Non-flushed urinals not connected to a sewerage system must comply with Tas F2.102.

After Tas F2.101 insert Tas F2.102 as follows:

Tas F2.102 Installation of Closet Fixtures

(a)

If a sufficient sewerage system is not available, an authorised alternative means of disposal of sewage, may be installed.

(b)

If sanitary facilities are not water-flushed, the following provisions apply:

(i)

A pit latrine, an incinerating toilet, a chemical toilet, a removable pan or a non-flushing urinal must not be within 2 m of a building containing habitable rooms.

(ii)

The floor on which a removable pan is placed must be impervious.

(iii)

A room containing a composting toilet must be separated from habitable rooms by way of a permanently ventilated air lock (which may be a circulation space).

(iv)

The minimum ventilation required under (iii) shall be the greater of—

(A)

8000 mm2; or

(B)

1/500th of the floor area of the circulation space.

(v)

Access for maintenance or removal of waste from a composting toilet must be by way of an access door which opens directly to the outside of the building.