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Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991
sec.106CPower to seize dangerous places, structures and things
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### sec.106C Power to seize dangerous places, structures and things
This section applies if—
an investigator enters a place under this part; and
the place is a building site or has a non-conforming structure on it; and
the investigator reasonably believes that the place, a part of the place, or a building or other structure or other thing on the place, is hazardous to a degree likely to cause death or a serious injury or illness to a person.
The investigator may seize the place, part of the place, or the building, structure or thing.
In this section—
non-conforming structure means a building or other structure with which a building product that is, or is suspected to be, a non-conforming building product is or has been associated.
s 106C ins 2003 No. 1 s 38
sub 2017 No. 29 s 22
amd 2017 No. 43 s 294 (1)
(sec.106C-ssec.1) This section applies if— an investigator enters a place under this part; and the place is a building site or has a non-conforming structure on it; and the investigator reasonably believes that the place, a part of the place, or a building or other structure or other thing on the place, is hazardous to a degree likely to cause death or a serious injury or illness to a person.
(sec.106C-ssec.2) The investigator may seize the place, part of the place, or the building, structure or thing.
(sec.106C-ssec.3) In this section— non-conforming structure means a building or other structure with which a building product that is, or is suspected to be, a non-conforming building product is or has been associated.
- (a) an investigator enters a place under this part; and
- (b) the place is a building site or has a non-conforming structure on it; and
- (c) the investigator reasonably believes that the place, a part of the place, or a building or other structure or other thing on the place, is hazardous to a degree likely to cause death or a serious injury or illness to a person.