NCC 2019 Volume One Amendment 1
Schedule 3 Definitions

Schedule 3 Definitions

Vary Schedule 3 as follows:

Vic Schedule 3 Definitions

Add the definition of children’s service as follows:

Children’s service has the same meaning as it has under the Children's Services Act 1996, but excludes a service where education and care is primarily provided to school aged children.

Substitute the definition of early childhood centre as follows:

Early childhood centre means—
  1. any premises, or part thereof, providing or intending to provide a centre-based education and care service within the meaning of the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010, and the Education and Care Services National Regulations, excluding a service where education and care is primarily provided to school aged children; and
  2. a children’s service.

Substitute the definition of flood hazard area as follows:

Flood hazard area means the site (whether or not mapped) encompassing land in an area liable to flooding within the meaning of regulation 153 of the Building Regulations 2018.

Substitute the definition of freeboard as follows:

Freeboard means the minimum height of the level of the lowest floor of a building above the defined flood level, regulated by the relevant planning scheme, or specified or otherwise determined by the relevant council under Regulation 153 of the Building Regulations 2018.

Add the definition of hotel offering shared accommodation as follows:

Hotel offering shared accommodation means a hotel which has any sole-occupancy units that can be shared by unrelated persons.

Add the definition of residential care building (Vic) as follows:

Residential care building (Vic) means a building which is a place of residence where 10% or more of persons who reside there need physical assistance in conducting their daily activities and to evacuate the building during an emergency (including any residential care service, State funded residential care service or supported residential service as defined in the Supported Residential Services (Private Proprietors) Act 2010 and an aged care building) but does not include—
  1. a hospital; or
  2. a dwelling in which 2 or more members of the same family and not more than 2 other persons would ordinarily be resident; or
  3. a place of residence where only one resident needs physical assistance in conducting their daily activities and to evacuate the building during an emergency.

Add the definition of restricted children’s service as follows:

Restricted children’s service means a children’s service that is—
  1. a limited hours Type 1 service; or
  2. a limited hours Type 2 service; or
  3. a short term Type 1 service; or
  4. a short term Type 2 service,


    as defined in the Children’s Services Regulations 2009; or

  5. an associated children's service within the meaning of the Children's Services Act 1996 approved to be operated by an approved provider at the same place as an approved education and care service that is required to meet the conditions of a limited hours Type 1 service, a limited hours Type 2 service, a short term Type 1 service, or a short term Type 2 service.

Add the definition of shared accommodation building as follows:

Shared accommodation building means a Class 3 building having—
  1. more than one sole-occupancy unit of which any sole-occupancy unit has sleeping facilities capable of accommodating 3 or more unrelated persons; or
  2. sleeping facilities capable of accommodating 13 or more unrelated persons,

that is a boarding-house, chalet, guest house, lodging-house, backpacker accommodation or the like, or a residential part of a hotel offering shared accommodation but does not include a residential care building (Vic), a motel or a residential part of a school, health-care building or detention centre.