Victorian Current Acts

BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 221ZZZEA

    (1)     Additional steps required to expiate a prescribed offence may include, but are not limited to, the following—

        (a)     the carrying out of any plumbing work if failure to carry out that work constitutes the offence;

        (b)     stopping any plumbing work that constitutes the offence;

        (c)     doing or omitting to do anything in order to remedy a contravention of this Part or the regulations made under this Part.

    (2)     If a plumbing infringement notice requires additional steps to be taken to expiate a prescribed offence, and, before the end of the remedy period set out in the notice, or if the authorised officer allows, at any time before the service of a summons in respect of the offence, the person served with the notice informs the authorised officer that those steps have been taken—

        (a)     the authorised officer must, without delay, find out whether or not those steps have been taken; and

        (b)     serve on the person a notice stating whether or not those steps have been taken.

    (3)     A statement in a notice under subsection (2) that additional steps have been taken is for all purposes conclusive proof of that fact.

S. 221ZZZEB inserted by No. 31/2007 s. 14.