Person for whom construction work carried out
38 Person for whom construction work carried out
(1) The Board may decide who is to be treated as a person for whom construction work is to be carried out, having regard to all of the following:
whether or not the person provides the funding for the work;
(b) whether or not the person has the ownership or control of, or any interest in, the work or the site of the work;
(c) whether or not the person derives any direct or indirect benefit from the work;
any other circumstances that the Board considers relevant.
(2) For subsection (1), the Board may, by written notice, require a person to provide the Board with any specified information, document or thing in order to identify a person for whom construction work is to be carried out.
(3) The person to whom the notice is given must not, without reasonable excuse:
fail to comply with the requirement; or
(b) provide the Board with any information in relation to that requirement that the person knows to be false or misleading; or
(c) unless subsection (4) applies, give a document or thing to the Board knowing that it contains false or misleading information.
Maximum penalty: If the offender is a natural person – 100 penalty units.
If the offender is a body corporate – 500 penalty units.
(4) This subsection applies if the person, when giving the document or thing:
(a) tells the Board, to the best of the person's ability, how the document or thing contains false or misleading information; and
(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information – gives the correct information to the Board.
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