Western Australian Current Acts

BUILDING ACT 2011 - SECT 19

19 .         Certificate of design compliance

        (1)         In this section —

        certificate means a certificate of design compliance for a building or an incidental structure that is the subject of a certified application or an uncertified application.

        (2)         A certificate must be in an approved form.

        (3)         A certificate must contain a statement of the building surveyor signing the certificate to the effect that if the building or incidental structure that is the subject of the application is completed in accordance with the plans and specifications that are specified in the certificate, the building (including each incidental structure associated with the building) or incidental structure will comply with each applicable standard.

        (4)         A building surveyor may, in a certificate, specify such of the inspections and tests listed in regulations mentioned in section 36(2)(b) that the building surveyor thinks should be conducted during or at the completion of the building work.

        (5)         A certificate must contain each other thing that is prescribed to be in the certificate.

        (6)         The regulations may provide for the things that a building surveyor is required to do before signing a certificate.

        [Section 19 amended: No. 37 of 2012 s. 6 and 34.]