Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsS. 221ZKA(1) amended by No. 34/2013 s. 34(Sch. 1 item 69).
(1) The Authority may authorise a person to issue and sign a compliance certificate on its behalf if plumbing work in respect of which a compliance certificate must be issued under section 221ZH is completed and the licensed plumber who carried out the work—
(a) did not issue a certificate in respect of the work, and is dead or cannot be located after reasonable enquiries have been made; or
(b) is under a physical or legal disability that prevents him or her from issuing a certificate in respect of the work.
(2) A person who requests a compliance certificate under this section is liable to pay—
(a) any fee or fees specified by the regulations for the purposes of this section; and
S. 221ZKA
(2)(b) amended by No. 34/2013 s. 34(Sch. 1
item 69).
(b) any costs incurred by or on behalf of the Authority to enable the certificate to be issued and signed.
(3) Subsection (2) applies even if a certificate is not ultimately issued and signed under this section.
(4) For the purposes of this section, section 221ZI(1) applies as if—
S. 221ZKA
(4)(a) amended by No. 34/2013 s. 34(Sch. 1
item 69).
(a) a reference to a licensed plumber was a reference to the person authorised by the Authority to sign the certificate; and
S. 221ZKA
(4)(b) amended by No. 34/2013 s. 34(Sch. 1
item 69).
(b) there were substituted for paragraph (b) the following paragraph—
"(b) states that he or she has inspected or tested the work as far as is practicable and that he or she is authorised by the Authority to issue compliance certificates under section 221ZKA; and".
(5) Section 221ZK(a) does not apply to the signing of a compliance certificate by a person who has been authorised to sign the certificate under this section.
(6) A certificate that is issued under this section is to be treated as if it had been issued in accordance with section 221ZH.
S. 221ZL inserted by No. 39/1996 s. 5.