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Smoke alarm compliance
- Queensland rental smoke alarm checks: the 30 day window before every tenancyCompliance by stateQueensland lessors must test and clean every smoke alarm within 30 days before each tenancy starts or renews. How service firms run it in ServiceM8.
- Is your Queensland home ready for the 2027 smoke alarm law?ToolAnswer seven questions on alarm type, age, power, interconnection, rooms and levels to check your home against the QLD smoke alarm law due 1 January 2027.
- Queensland smoke alarm law from 1 January 2027: what the installer has to deliverCompliance by stateFrom 1 January 2027 every Queensland home needs interconnected photoelectric alarms. What an electrician installs, what to record, and a ServiceM8 setup.
- NSW rental smoke alarm rules: what landlords, agents and electricians must doCompliance by stateNSW landlords must check smoke alarms yearly, fix faults in 2 business days and use a licensed electrician on hardwired alarms. Rules plus a ServiceM8 setup.
- Victorian rental smoke alarm rules: the annual test, hardwired homes and the minimum standardsCompliance by stateVictorian rental providers must test every smoke alarm yearly under s 68AA, for leases since 25 November 2025. Hardwired rules by build date.
- Smoke alarms and RCDs before a WA property is sold, rented or hiredCompliance by stateBefore a WA home changes hands or gets a new tenant, it needs AS 3786 smoke alarms and at least two RCDs. Standard, placement, and who has to fit them.