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Building Act 1993
48FGranting of owner-builder certificate
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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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