Magistrates Court (Building Infringement Notices) Regulation 2008

An inspector may serve the following:

an infringement notice for an infringement notice offence against the building legislation;

a reminder notice for an infringement notice offence against the building legislation.

Note For how documents may be served, see the Legislation Act, pt 19.5.

In this section:

builder––see the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004, section 8.

building surveyor––see the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004, section 9.

construction occupation––see the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004, section 7.

inspector means––

a building inspector under the Building Act 2004; or

a compliance auditor under the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004; or

a deputy registrar appointed under the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004, section 106 for the construction occupation of builder; or

a deputy registrar appointed under the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004, section 106 for the construction occupation of building surveyor.

Schedule 1 Building legislation infringement notice offences and penalties

(see s 7 and s 8)

Part 1.1 Building Act 2004

column 1

item

column 2

offence provision

column 3

offence penalty (penalty units)

column 4

infringement penalty ($)

1

37A (6)

5

100

2

37B (4)

5

100

3

43 (3)

50

1 250

4

44 (2A)

50

1 250

5

44 (2B)

50

1 250

6

50B (1)

60

1 200

7

50B (2)

60

1 200

8

78 (2)

50

1 600

9

79 (5)

50

1 250

10

83I

20

280

11

83J

20

220

12

83M

20

220

13

83N

30

420

14

83O

30

420

15

83R (2)

30

360

Part 1.2 Building (General) Regulation 2008

column 1

item

column 2

offence provision

column 3

offence penalty

(penalty units)

column 4

infringement penalty ($)

1

49

10

1000

Dictionary

(see s 4)

Note 1 The Legislation Act contains definitions and other provisions relevant to this regulation.

Note 2 For example, the Legislation Act, dict, pt 1, defines the following terms:

 construction occupations registrar

 corporation

 Corporations Act

 individual.

Note 3 Terms used in this regulation have the same meaning that they have in the Magistrates Court Act 1930 (see Legislation Act, s 148). For example, the following terms are defined in the Magistrates Court Act 1930, dict:

 administering authority

 authorised person

 infringement notice

 infringement notice offence

 reminder notice.

building legislation means––

the Building Act 2004; and

the Building (General) Regulation 2008.