Building Act 2016
292Inspection provisions
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292 Inspection provisions
(1) The Governor may make regulations under this Act in relation to the inspecting or testing of –
(a) a building or an incidental structure; or
(b) building work, plumbing work or demolition work.
(2) Without limiting this Part, regulations may –
(a) prescribe the inspections or tests that are to be conducted during or at the completion of building work, plumbing work or demolition work; and
(b) list the inspections and tests that may be specified by a building surveyor, in a certificate of likely compliance for a particular building or incidental structure, as inspections or tests that are to be conducted during or at the completion of the building work; and
(c) provide for the persons or classes of persons who may conduct inspections or tests; and
(d) provide for the methods to be adopted in the inspection or testing process; and
(e) provide for the frequency of inspection or testing or the means for determining whether, when and how often an inspection or test must be conducted; and
(f) provide for persons performing building or demolition work to give notice of having reached, or completed, a stage of building or demolition work; and
(g) require an inspection certificate to be obtained; and
(h) make provision in relation to the form of an inspection certificate; and
(i) provide for the keeping of records in relation to matters mentioned in this section; and
(j) provide for the reporting of information about matters mentioned in this section.