Compliance declarations by registered principal design practitioners
12 Compliance declarations by registered principal design practitioners
A registered principal design practitioner appointed in relation to building work must ensure that—
a design compliance declaration has been provided in accordance with section 9 for each regulated design prepared for the building work, and
each declaration has been provided by a registered design practitioner whose registration authorises the practitioner to provide a declaration as to the matters to which the declaration relates.
Maximum penalty—1,500 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 500 penalty units (in any other case).
A registered principal design practitioner appointed in relation to building work must provide a principal compliance declaration to the persons, and in the circumstances, prescribed by the regulations.
Maximum penalty—1,500 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 500 penalty units (in any other case).
Without limiting subsection (2), a regulation made under that subsection may require regulated designs and principal compliance declarations to be lodged electronically through an internet site or an application established by or on behalf of the Department.
A person must not make a principal compliance declaration that the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—2,000 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.
The regulations may require a principal compliance declaration provided under this section to be accompanied by other documents prescribed by the regulations.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
, a regulation
, The regulations may require
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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