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Home Building Act 1989
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#### 13 Unqualified residential building work
13 Unqualified residential building work
> > (1) An individual must not do any residential building work, except—
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> > > (a) as the holder of an endorsed contractor licence, a supervisor or tradesperson certificate or an owner-builder permit, authorising its holder to do that work, or
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> > > (b) under the supervision, and subject to the direction, of the holder of an endorsed contractor licence or supervisor certificate authorising its holder to supervise that work.
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> > Maximum penalty—1,000 penalty units in the case of a corporation and 200 penalty units in any other case.
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> > (2) If the same facts establish an offence under this section and an offence under another provision of this Act or under any other Act or law, an individual is not liable to be convicted of both offences.
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> **s 13:** Am 2001 No 51, Sch 8 \[8\]; 2004 No 55, Sch 2.17 \[3\]; 2004 No 101, Sch 4 \[1\].