(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –
Administrator means the person appointed by the Minister as the Administrator of Occupational Licensing under section 10 ;
approved means approved by the Administrator;
approved authority means a local authority, statutory authority or any body or organisation, whether incorporated or not, that is approved by the Administrator for the purposes of this Act in respect of an occupation, trade or calling to which this Act applies;
(a) any work that does not comply with a code of practice; or
(b) any work where the materials, tools or equipment used are faulty or unsuitable for the purposes of the work; or
(c) any work that has been left in an incomplete and unsafe condition; or
(d) any other work that is determined to be defective work under a code of practice or in accordance with the regulations;
director has the same meaning as in section 9 of the Corporations Act;
document means any record of information, and includes –
(a) anything on which there is writing; and
(b) anything on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them; and
(c) anything from which sounds, images or writings can be reproduced with or without the aid of anything else; and
(d) a map, plan, drawing or photograph –
and a reference in this Act to a document includes a reference to –
(e) any part of the document; and
(f) any copy, reproduction or duplicate of the document or of any part of the document; and
(g) any part of such a copy, reproduction or duplicate;
[Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 26 of 2016, s. 4, Applied:01 Jan 2017]fit and proper, in the case of a contractor, practitioner, building services provider or other person who is subject to this Act, means fit and proper as defined in a code of practice relevant to that contractor, practitioner, building services provider or other person;
Fund means the Occupational Licensing Administration Fund established under section 96 ;
licence means –
(a) an authority granted and in force under this Act to carry out any prescribed work; or
(a) in the case of a body corporate that is a licensed entity, a director of the body corporate who holds a building services licence as an individual; or
(b) in the case of a partnership that is a licensed entity, a partner of the partnership who holds a building services licence as an individual; or
standard means a standard issued by a standards authority;
standards authority means Standards Australia International Limited, the British Standards Institution, the International Organization for Standardization, the American National Standards Institute, Standards New Zealand or any other similar authority approved by the Administrator;
statutory authority means a body or authority, whether incorporated or not, which is established or constituted by or under an Act or under the Royal Prerogative, being a body or authority which, or of which the governing authority, wholly or partly comprises a person or persons appointed by the Governor, a Minister or another statutory authority but does not include a Government department;
supervision means supervision within the meaning of a code of practice.