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).