Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO. 44 OF 2016) - SECT 14

Section 69 (1) and note

substitute

    (1)     The construction occupations registrar must issue a certificate of occupancy for building work that involves the erection or alteration of a building if, on application by the owner of the parcel of land where the building work was carried out, the registrar is satisfied that—

        (a)     the building work has been completed in accordance with the prescribed requirements for the building work; and

        (b)     the building as erected or as altered is fit for occupation and use as a building of the class stated in the approved plans for that building work.

Note 1     If the building work only involved erecting part of a building, see s (3).

Note 2     Power to make a decision includes power to reverse or change the decision (see Legislation Act

, s 180).