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17 Applications for building permits
An application for a building permit may be made to a municipal building surveyor or to a private building surveyor appointed under Part 6—
(a) by or on behalf of the owner of the building or the owner of the land, in or on which the building work is to be carried out; or
(b) if the land in or on which the building work is to be carried out is a lot of a kind referred to in section 9AA(1) of the **Sale of Land Act 1962**, by the purchaser under a contract for the sale of that lot.
S. 17A inserted by No. 11/2023 s. 32.