19Designs and design compliance declarations to be obtained

#### 19 Designs and design compliance declarations to be obtained 19 Designs and design compliance declarations to be obtained > A building practitioner must not, except with reasonable excuse, carry out any part of building work for which a regulated design is to be used unless— > > > (a) the practitioner has obtained a design from a registered design practitioner for the work and a design compliance declaration for the design from a registered design practitioner whose registration authorises the practitioner to provide a declaration as to the matters to which the declaration relates, and > > > (b) the declaration states that the design complies with the requirements of the Building Code of Australia and other applicable requirements prescribed for the purposes of section 8(1). > > Maximum penalty—1,500 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 500 penalty units (in any other case).