Building practitioners must ensure compliance with declaration obligations
18 Building practitioners must ensure compliance with declaration obligations
A building practitioner who does building work must take all reasonable steps to ensure that—
each regulated design for the building work is prepared by a registered design practitioner, and
a design compliance declaration is obtained for those designs from a registered design practitioner whose registration authorises the practitioner to provide a declaration as to the matters to which the declaration relates, and
if a principal design practitioner has been appointed in relation to the building work, a principal compliance declaration is obtained for all of those designs from a registered principal design practitioner whose registration authorises the practitioner to provide a declaration as to the matters to which the declaration relates.
Maximum penalty—3,000 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 1,000 penalty units (in any other case).
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