New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT CERTIFIERS ACT 2018 - SECT 112

112 Responsibilities of councils carrying out certain prescribed certification work

(1) A local council must ensure that any certification work of a class prescribed by the regulations that is carried out on behalf of the local council is carried out by a registered individual whose registration authorises the individual to carry out that certification work.

: Maximum penalty--1,000 penalty units.

(2) A local council is taken to satisfy subsection (1) if it engages a registered body corporate to carry out the certification work.

(3) The Secretary may, with the approval of the Minister, exempt a local council by written notice given to the local council from the requirements of subsection (1).

(4) The approval of the Minister--

(a) may be given with respect to a particular case or a class of cases, and

(b) may be subject to conditions, and

(c) may be amended from time to time.

(5) Any exemption given under this section--

(a) may be limited in time or subject to conditions, or both, and

(b) may be revoked by the Secretary by written notice given to the local council and must be revoked if the relevant approval of the Minister is no longer in force.