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BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 262

Additional regulation-making powers

Any regulations made under this Act

        (a)     may be of general or limited application; and

        (b)     may differ according to differences in time, place and circumstance; and

        (c)     may confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on or leave any matter to be determined or approved by a specified person or body or class of persons or bodies; and

S. 262(d) amended by Nos 71/1995 s. 23(2), 39/1996 s. 10(a), 31/2007 s. 21(a), 43/2019 s. 26.

        (d)     may provide for the exemption of persons or classes of persons, or buildings or classes of buildings, land or classes of land or building work or plumbing work or classes of building work or plumbing work, or materials or products or classes of materials or products in relation to building work or plumbing work, from any or all of the provisions of this Act or the regulations including any levies or fees imposed or prescribed by or under this Act or the regulations; and

S. 262(e) amended by Nos 31/2007 s. 21(b), 46/2018 s. 29(2).

        (e)     may confer power on a council or municipal building surveyor or private building surveyor to exempt any persons or classes of person or any building or classes of buildings or building work or classes of building work or any materials or products or classes of materials or products in relation to building work from all or any of the requirements of the building regulations;

S. 262(ea) inserted by No. 39/1996 s. 10(b), amended by No. 31/2007 s. 21(c).

        (ea)     may confer power on a compliance auditor or plumbing inspector to exempt any plumbing work or any materials or products or classes of materials or products in relation to plumbing work from all or any of the requirements of regulations made under Part 12A;

S. 262(f) amended by No. 66/2004 s. 19(2).

        (f)     may impose penalties not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations.



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