Queensland Consolidated Regulations

BUILDING REGULATION 2006 - REG 16ZO

16ZO Responsibility for acts or omissions of agents

(1) This section applies in a proceeding for an offence against this part.

(2) If it is relevant to prove an owner’s state of mind about a particular act or omission, it is enough to show—

(a) the act was done or omitted to be done by an agent of the owner within the scope of the agent’s actual or apparent authority; and

(b) the agent had the state of mind.

(3) An act done or omitted to be done for an owner by an agent of the owner within the scope of the agent’s actual or apparent authority is taken to have been done or omitted to be done also by the owner, unless the owner proves the owner could not have, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, prevented the act or omission.

(4) In this section—

"state of mind" , of an owner, includes—

(a) the owner’s knowledge, intention, opinion, belief or purpose; and

(b) the owner’s reasons for the intention, opinion, belief or purpose.