Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A person must not carry out work that is of a kind prescribed to be carried out by a category or class of building practitioner (other than a builder) unless the person is registered under this Part in that category or class of building practitioner and the registration authorises the carrying out of that kind of work.
Penalty: 500 penalty units, in the case of a natural person;
2500 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the following persons who carry out a kind of work prescribed for the purposes of subsection (1)—
(a) a person who is authorised under this Act or the building regulations to carry out that kind of work on behalf of a building surveyor;
(b) a natural person who is registered as an architect under Part 3 of the Architects Act 1991 , if the carrying out of that kind of work is an architectural service;
(c) a member of an approved partnership (within the meaning of the Architects Act 1991 ), if the carrying out of that kind of work is an architectural service;
(d) an approved company (within the meaning of the Architects Act 1991 ) or a director of such an approved company, if the carrying out of that kind of work is an architectural service;
(e) a person who is working under the supervision of a person who is registered as an architect under Part 3 of the Architects Act 1991 to obtain experience on practical architectural work in order to meet the requirement in section 10(b) of that Act, if the carrying out of that kind of work is an architectural service;
(f) an endorsed building engineer, if the carrying out of that kind of work is a professional engineering service.
S. 169E inserted by No. 21/2017 s. 7, repealed by No. 11/2023 s. 41.
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S. 169EA inserted by No. 46/2018 s. 10.