133Evidence of publication

133 Evidence of publication

133 Evidence of publication

(1) In any proceedings under this Act or the regulations—

(a) where a published statement is intended, or apparently intended, to promote services related to doing residential building work or specialist work, and

(b) a name, business name, address, telephone number, post office box number or email address specified in the statement is that of a person, or the agent of a person, who—

(i) is the supplier of the services, or

(ii) has an interest, otherwise than as a supplier, in the supply of services,

it is to be presumed, unless the contrary is established, that the person or agent, as the case may be, caused the statement to be published.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a person who causes a statement to be published is to be taken to have done so on each day on which the statement is published.

s 133: Am 1998 No 54, Sch 1.11 [3]–[5]; 2001 No 51, Sch 3 [13]; 2009 No 61, Sch 2 [38] [71] [72]; 2017 No 63, Sch 2.5.