18Building practitioners must ensure compliance with declaration obligations

#### 18 Building practitioners must ensure compliance with declaration obligations 18 Building practitioners must ensure compliance with declaration obligations > A building practitioner who does building work must take all reasonable steps to ensure that— > > > (a) each regulated design for the building work is prepared by a registered design practitioner, and > > > (b) a design compliance declaration is obtained for those designs from a registered design practitioner whose registration authorises the practitioner to provide a declaration as to the matters to which the declaration relates, and > > > (c) if a principal design practitioner has been appointed in relation to the building work, a principal compliance declaration is obtained for all of those designs from a registered principal design practitioner whose registration authorises the practitioner to provide a declaration as to the matters to which the declaration relates. > > Maximum penalty—3,000 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 1,000 penalty units (in any other case).