Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020

In this Act, building practitioner means—

a person who agrees under a contract or other arrangement to do building work, or

if more than one person agrees to do building work, a person who is the principal contractor for the work.

In this Act, principal contractor means a person who agrees to do building work under a contract or arrangement (the head contract) and for whom work is to be carried out under one or more other contracts or arrangements as part of or incidental to the work carried out under the head contract.

In this Act, a building practitioner is taken to do building work if the practitioner—

agrees to do building work under a contract or other arrangement, or

is the principal contractor for the work.

The regulations may—

prescribe additional persons as building practitioners for the purposes of this Act, and

exclude persons from being building practitioners for the purposes of this Act, and

prescribe circumstances in which a person prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (a) is taken to do building work.