68Building practitioners must ensure compliance with declaration obligations

68 Building practitioners must ensure compliance with declaration obligations

68 Building practitioners must ensure compliance with declaration obligations

(1) A building practitioner who carries out building element work must take all reasonable steps to ensure that—

(a) a regulated design is obtained for the work, and

(b) a design compliance declaration is obtained for each regulated design.

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—600 penalty units, or

(b) otherwise—3,000 penalty units.

(2) A building practitioner must not, without reasonable excuse, carry out building element work unless the design compliance declaration for the regulated design specifies that the design complies with—

(a) the Building Code of Australia, and

(b) the requirements of this Act and the regulations.

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—600 penalty units, or

(b) otherwise—3,000 penalty units.

(3) The regulations may prescribe circumstances in which a building practitioner is not required to comply with this section.