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Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020
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#### 33 Registered professional engineers to be indemnified
33 Registered professional engineers to be indemnified
> > (1) A registered professional engineer must not—
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> > > (a) carry out professional engineering work, or
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> > > (b) hold out that the engineer is adequately insured with respect to the work,
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> > unless the engineer is adequately insured with respect to the work.
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> > Maximum penalty—300 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 100 penalty units (in any other case).
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> > (2) For the purposes of this section, a registered professional engineer is adequately insured with respect to work if the engineer—
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> > > (a) is indemnified by insurance that complies with the regulations against any liability to which the engineer may become subject as a result of carrying out the work, or
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> > > (b) is part of some other arrangement approved by the regulations that provides indemnity against the liability.
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> > (3) It is a condition of registration that a registered professional engineer must provide to the Secretary, in the time specified by the Secretary, information that the Secretary may require to satisfy the Secretary that the engineer is adequately insured in accordance with this section.