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Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991
sec.47Warnings
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### sec.47 Warnings
If—
building work is carried out on land by a person who is not licensed to carry out that building work; and
the land is offered for sale within 6 years after completion of the building work;
the vendor must, before the contract of sale is signed by the purchaser, give the prospective purchaser a notice containing details of the building work and a warning in the form required by regulation.
If a notice is not given as required by this section, the vendor will be taken to have given the purchaser a contractual warranty (which operates to the exclusion of any inconsistent provision of the contract of sale) that the building work was properly carried out.
s 47 amd 1994 No. 20 s 3 sch
(sec.47-ssec.1) If— building work is carried out on land by a person who is not licensed to carry out that building work; and the land is offered for sale within 6 years after completion of the building work; the vendor must, before the contract of sale is signed by the purchaser, give the prospective purchaser a notice containing details of the building work and a warning in the form required by regulation.
(sec.47-ssec.2) If a notice is not given as required by this section, the vendor will be taken to have given the purchaser a contractual warranty (which operates to the exclusion of any inconsistent provision of the contract of sale) that the building work was properly carried out.
- (a) building work is carried out on land by a person who is not licensed to carry out that building work; and
- (b) the land is offered for sale within 6 years after completion of the building work;