New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DESIGN AND BUILDING PRACTITIONERS ACT 2020 - SECT 18

18 Building practitioners must ensure compliance with declaration obligations

A building practitioner who does building work must take all reasonable steps to ensure that--

(a) each regulated design for the building work is prepared by a registered design practitioner, and

(b) a design compliance declaration is obtained for those designs from a registered design practitioner whose registration authorises the practitioner to provide a declaration as to the matters to which the declaration relates, and

(c) if a principal design practitioner has been appointed in relation to the building work, a principal compliance declaration is obtained for all of those designs from a registered principal design practitioner whose registration authorises the practitioner to provide a declaration as to the matters to which the declaration relates.

: Maximum penalty--3,000 penalty units (in the case of a body corporate) or 1,000 penalty units (in any other case).