29BEligibility for owner builder permit

29B Eligibility for owner builder permit

[Section 29B Inserted by No. 26 of 2016, s. 22, Applied:01 Jan 2017]

(1)  A person is eligible to hold an owner builder permit if the person –

(a) meets the prescribed criteria; and

(b) is, or will be, covered by the insurance required under section 29F(1) at the time the permit is issued; and

(c) has successfully completed an owner builder training course, approved under subsection (3) , within the 12-month period immediately before he or she is the subject of an application for an owner builder permit; and

(d) has engaged a building surveyor in respect of the work to be performed as an owner builder as required under the Building Act 2016 .

(2)  Subsection (1)(c) does not apply to a person if –

(a) he or she intends to manage or carry out building work as an owner builder in respect of premises; and

(b) an owner of those premises is also an owner builder in relation to those premises and has complied with subsection (1)(c) .

(3)  The Administrator may, by notice in the Gazette, approve a specific training course, or a training course provided by a person or body specified in the notice, as an owner builder training course for the purposes of subsection (1)(c) .

(4)  A notice under subsection (3) is not a statutory rule for the purposes of the Rules Publication Act 1953 .