<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?Xpress productLine="ncc-clause" ?><clause xmlns:xt="urn:xpressauthor:trackchanges" id="_db979dac-5131-4d2b-9002-e613bbd4bda4" outputclass="ncc-clause"><meta><facet building="Class 2"/><facet building="Class 3"/><facet building="Class 4"/><facet building="Class 5"/><facet building="Class 6"/><facet building="Class 7a"/><facet building="Class 7b"/><facet building="Class 8"/><facet building="Class 9a"/><facet building="Class 9b"/><facet building="Class 9c"/><facet building="Class 10b"/><facet building="Class 10c"/></meta><sptc>10.7.4</sptc><title id="_623b3886-5c31-4388-a3d2-7f4c88910d86">Services</title><archive-num>2019: 3.8.6.5</archive-num><subclause id="_111a50f3-d118-48a3-bfd8-cc94ba4044bb" outputclass="subclause"><title id="_065249b4-4d24-4cfc-87bd-f3bf2d903ef4">SubClause</title><num>1</num><p>Services must not be chased into concrete or masonry <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1455_0.7.0.xml#_c162af82-2477-499d-bdb1-39be88ffa668" id="_aa3a6a9c-9052-409e-8377-101677a6f907" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">separating walls</xref>.</p></subclause><subclause id="_b7c53047-8ec6-47d5-b07f-78aef38e243a" outputclass="subclause"><title id="_f9e790ff-f6ed-4b98-807a-05f7a566415f">SubClause</title><num>2</num><p>If a duct, soil, waste, water supply or stormwater pipe is located in a <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1455_0.7.0.xml#_c162af82-2477-499d-bdb1-39be88ffa668" id="_d16192fc-dbe4-4027-a872-284ab59650ba" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">separating wall</xref>—</p><ol outputclass="alpha"><li id="_49c3aabe-d8c8-4f18-90b3-eee01b6acd23">a door or panel providing access to a duct or pipe <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1432_4.0.0.xml#_af6fde9f-147d-4782-8b85-42044e80fd42" id="_e9d991a0-05f8-4459-93f0-4b59e931e7ac" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">required</xref> to be separated must—<ol><li>not open into any <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1326_0.4.0.xml#_b8eec66f-9c05-425d-8474-e6a2dfc2c0f4" id="_89428985-e4e6-4af1-abf3-44bb76722d27" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">habitable room</xref>, other than a kitchen; and</li><li>in any other part must be firmly fixed so as to overlap the frame or rebate of the frame by not less than 10 mm and be constructed of—<ol><li>wood, plasterboard or blockboard not less than 33 mm thick; or</li><li>compressed fibre reinforced cement sheeting not less than 9 mm thick; or</li><li>other suitable material with a mass per unit area not less than 24.4 kg/m<sup id="_17add03a-0979-421b-afa5-c82effe9ee2d">2</sup>; and</li></ol></li></ol></li><li id="_e685bfca-6ce6-445c-bbfc-314235c2eaf5">in the case of a water supply pipe, it must—<ol><li>only be installed in <xref format="dita" href="/tmp/QppServer/Publishing/5e2c1f63-e589-4ce1-95e8-5c3e286a7aff/1246_0.15.0.xml#_ba34e29d-195b-41f3-8774-cec1cf915aa6" id="_400284a7-f41a-4c45-91d9-7459599172a6" scope="local" type="abcb-glossentry">discontinuous construction</xref>; and</li><li>in the case of a water supply pipe that serves one dwelling, not be fixed to the wall leaf on the side of any other dwelling and have a clearance not less than 10 mm to the other wall leaf.</li></ol></li></ol></subclause><subclause id="_5403d084-3cea-4f31-b8a2-9a38d7f5e402" outputclass="subclause"><title id="_0968b577-8145-4bb4-bcf5-996571acb284">SubClause</title><num>3</num><p>Electrical outlets must be offset from each other—</p><ol outputclass="alpha"><li id="_07014951-de2e-46ac-812f-ac9fd60060ce">in masonry walling, not less than 100 mm; and</li><li id="_74539fc2-a4c9-4226-9349-fb284051cae4">in timber or steel-framed walling, not less than 300 mm.</li></ol></subclause></clause>