Queensland Consolidated Acts

QUEENSLAND BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMISSION ACT 1991 - SECT 43

43 Licensed contractor must ensure building work is personally supervised

(1) For a licensed contractor that is a company, the company and the company’s nominee must each ensure that building work carried out by the contractor is personally supervised by—

(a) the company’s nominee; or

(b) an officer or employee of the contractor who holds one of the following licences of the relevant class authorising supervision of the building work—

(i) a nominee supervisor’s licence;

(ii) a site supervisor’s licence;

(iii) a fire protection occupational licence;

(iv) an occupational licence; or

(c) an individual who holds a contractor’s licence of the relevant class.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—200 penalty units; or

(b) for a company—1,000 penalty units.

(2) For a licensed contractor that is an individual, the contractor must ensure that building work carried out by the contractor is personally supervised by—

(a) the contractor; or

(b) an employee of the contractor who holds one of the following licences of the relevant class authorising supervision of the building work—

(i) a nominee supervisor’s licence;

(ii) a site supervisor’s licence;

(iii) a fire protection occupational licence;

(iv) an occupational licence; or

(c) an individual who holds a contractor’s licence of the relevant class.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.

(3) In this section—

"licensed contractor" does not include a licensed contractor that is a construction manager.