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Saskatchewan follows the National Fire Code of Canada (NFC) by regulation under provisions of The Fire Prevention Act, 1992 as the standard for the fire safe operation of buildings and facilities. The NFC establishes these three core objectives:
•safety;
•health; and
•fire protection of buildings and facilities.
The 2010 edition of the NFC has been adopted for use throughout Saskatchewan and took effect on September 11, 2013.

Saskatchewan follows the Canadian Plumbing Code 1990, regulated in the Saskatchewan Plumbing and Drainage Regulations in Part IV.

In order to ensure the quality of construction work and public safety, the Building Act provides for the adoption of a Construction Code and a Safety Code governing buildings, facilities intended for use by the public, electrical, plumbing and pressure installations, petroleum equipment installations, and installations intended to use, store or distribute gas. Whereas the Construction Code applies to plan and specifications designers (architects, engineers, technologists) and contractors, the Safety Code is intended for owners of buildings, facilities and installations.

2(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act applies to the
design, construction and demolition of buildings in the
Province.
2(1) Sous réserve du paragraphe (2), la présente loi s’applique
à la conception, à la construction et à la démolition
de bâtiments dans la province.
2(2) This Act or the regulations under this Act, or a provision
of this Act or the regulations do not apply to any
building or class of building exempted by the regulations
from the application of this Act or the regulations under

(1) These regulations apply to the administration and enforcement of the Building Code Act in the design, construction, erection, placement and occupancy of new buildings, and the alteration, reconstruction, demolition, removal, relocation, occupancy and change of occupancy classification of existing buildings and to the work necessary to correct unsafe conditions in existing buildings reported to the authority having jurisdiction or observed during an inspection.

The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make such regulations as
he considers desirable to regulate and control the use of buildings, to
regulate and control the use of materials, equipment and appliances in the
construction of buildings, and set standards of construction in the
erection of buildings within the Province of Prince Edward Island and
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing may make
regulations: (c) declare a specified edition or printing of the National Building