Residential Apartment Buildings (Compliance and Enforcement Powers) Act 2020
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(1) In this Act—
approved plans, in relation to building work, means the following—
(a) approved plans and specifications issued with respect to a construction certificate or complying development certificate for the building work under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, together with any variations to those plans and specifications for the purposes of those certificates effected or approved in accordance with that Act,
(b) regulated designs under the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020,
(c) any other plans prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.
Building Code of Australia has the same meaning as in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
Building Commissioner means the Building Commissioner referred to in section 61.
building element has the same meaning as in the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020, and includes any element of a building that is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.
building product means any product, material or other thing that is, or could be, used in a building.
building work—see section 5.
building work rectification order—see section 33.
class of building means a building of that class as recognised by the Building Code of Australia.
completion, in relation to building work, means the date that the occupation certificate for the building or part of a building to which the building work relates was issued.
Department means the department in which this Act is administered.
developer—see section 4.
expected completion amendment notice—see section 8.
expected completion notice—see section 7.
expected date—see section 7(2).
function includes a power, authority or duty, and exercise a function includes perform a duty.
occupation certificate means an occupation certificate issued under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
owners corporation for a strata scheme means the owners corporation for the strata scheme constituted under the .