Compliance declarations by registered building practitioners
17 Compliance declarations by registered building practitioners
A registered building practitioner must provide a building compliance declaration for building work, contractor document and other required documents to a person for whom the practitioner does the building work before an application is made for an occupation certificate for the building to which the work relates.
Maximum penalty—1,500 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 500 penalty units (in any other case).
A registered building practitioner must provide a building compliance declaration, contractor document or other required document in other 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 building compliance declarations, contractor documents and other required documents 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 building 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.
A person who is provided with a building compliance declaration under subsection (1) must provide the declaration to the principal certifier who is responsible for issuing an occupation certificate for the building work before or when the application for the certificate is made.
Maximum penalty—300 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 100 penalty units (in any other case).
For the purposes of this section—
contractor document means the following—
a list of persons who have agreed under a contract or arrangement with the registered building practitioner to do any of the building work,
a list of any other persons prescribed by the regulations who have done building work on the building,
a list of the work done by each of the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) in relation to the building work,
copies of final designs used for the building work that are not regulated designs and are designs of a class prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph,
other documents prescribed by the regulations.
required document means a document prescribed by the regulations as a document that is required to accompany a building compliance declaration provided under this section.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
, a regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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