48FGranting of owner-builder certificate

48F Granting of owner-builder certificate (1) If the Practitioners Board is satisfied that the applicant: (a) is the owner of the land on which the building work is to be carried out; and (b) has successfully completed a course approved by the Minister; and (c) has not entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of the land to another person; it must grant the applicant an owner-builder certificate. (2) If an application is made by more than one person, subsection (1)(b) is complied with if at least one of the applicants has successfully completed the course. (3) An owner-builder certificate remains in force for 3 years from the date it is granted and may be renewed for a further period (not longer than 3 years) on an application by the owner-builder. (4) The Practitioners Board must not grant an owner-builder certificate to a person granted an owner-builder certificate in respect of other land unless the prescribed period has elapsed since that owner- builder certificate was granted. (5) The Practitioners Board may cancel an owner-builder certificate if it is satisfied that the certificate was obtained by fraud. (6) The Minister may, by Gazette notice, approve a course for subsection (1).

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