New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DESIGN AND BUILDING PRACTITIONERS ACT 2020 - SECT 15

15 Provision of relevant documents to Secretary

(1) A building practitioner who does building work must ensure that the relevant documents for the building work are provided to the Secretary no later than 90 days after the occupation certificate is issued for the building or part of the building to which the building work relates.

: Maximum penalty--300 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 100 penalty units (in any other case).

(2) The regulations may make provision with respect to the manner and form in which a relevant document is to be provided to the Secretary.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), a regulation made under that subsection may require relevant documents to be lodged electronically through an internet site or an application established by or on behalf of the Department.

(4) In this section--

"relevant document" means--

(a) each regulated design for which a design compliance declaration has been provided that reflects the building work that was carried out, and

(b) any other documents (including designs) that relate to the building work and are prescribed by the regulations.