Properties For Hire

Properties for Hire include hotels, motels, backpackers, holiday units and bed & breakfast. These can also be subject to the

new smoke alarm legislation amendments in Western Australia.

Summary of legislation from Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1960 Building Amendment Regulation 2009:

38 M – Requirement to have smoke alarms or similar prior to hire of a dwelling…

(1) The owner of a dwelling must not make the dwelling available for hire unless –

(a) The dwelling has smoke alarms installed so that the dwelling and the alarms comply with the requirements of regulation 38 N (3) ; or

(b) If an approved alternative building solution applies in relation to the dwelling – the solution is in effect.

Penalty : a fine of $5,000