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education and care service within the meaning of the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010 (Vic), the Education and Care Services National Regulations (NSW) and centre-based services that are licensed or approved under State and Territory children's services law, but excludes education and care primarily provided to school aged children in outside school hours settings.
Note: In 2020, the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010 (Vic) could be accessed from www.legislation.vic.gov.au and the Education and Care Services National Regulations (NSW) could be accessed from www.legislation.nsw.gov.au.
electric passenger lift means a power-operated lift for raising or lowering people in a car in which the motion of the car is obtained from an electric motor mechanically coupled to the hoisting mechanism.
electrohydraulic passenger lift means a power-operated lift for raising or lowering people in a car in which the motion of the car is obtained from the action of liquid under pressure acting on a piston or ram, the pressure being generated by a pump driven by an individual electric motor.
exit has the same meaning as in the BCA.
fire‑isolated ramp means a ramp within a fire‑resisting enclosure which provides egress from a storey.
fire‑isolated stairway means a stairway within a fire‑resisting shaft and includes the floor and roof or top enclosing structure.
fire safety system means one or any combination of the methods used in a building to:
 (a) warn people of an emergency; or
 (b) provide for safe evacuation; or
 (c) restrict the spread of fire; or
 (d) extinguish a fire;
and includes both active and passive systems.
floor area means:
 (a) in relation to a building — the total area of all storeys; and
 (b) in relation to a storey — the area of all floors of that storey measured over the enclosing walls, and includes:
 (i) the area of a mezzanine within the storey, measured within the finished surfaces of any external walls; and
 (ii) the area occupied by any internal walls or partitions, any cupboard, or other built‑in furniture, fixture or fitting; and
 (iii) if there is no enclosing wall, an area which has a use that:
 (A) contributes to the fire load; or
 (B) impacts on the safety, health or amenity of the occupants in relation to the provisions of the BCA; and
 (c) in relation to a room — the area of the room measured within the finished surfaces of the walls, and includes the area occupied by any cupboard or other built‑in furniture, fixture or fitting; and
 (d) in relation to a fire compartment — the total area of all floors within the fire compartment measured within the finished surfaces of the bounding construction, and if there is no