Western Australian Current Acts

BUILDING ACT 2011 - SECT 208

208 .         Validation of building permits naming, and compliance certificates issued by, public authorities

        (1)         In this section —

        public authority means a public authority as defined in the Registration Act.

        (2)         An application for a building permit that, before the commencement of section 7(1) of the amending Act, named and was signed by a public authority as the person proposing to be named as the builder on the building permit is, and is taken always to have been, as valid and effective as it would have been if section 20(1)(b)(iiia) were in effect at the time of the naming and signing.

        (3)         A building permit that, before the commencement of section 7(1) of the amending Act, named a public authority as the builder is, and is taken always to have been, as valid and effective as it would have been if section 20(1)(b)(iiia) were in effect at the time of the naming.

        (4)         A certificate issued or purported to be issued under section 19 by a public authority before the commencement of sections 7(2) and 28 of the amending Act is, and is taken always to have been, as valid and effective as it would have been if sections 20(1)(e)(iia) and 145A were in effect at the time of the issue or purported issue.

        (5)         A certificate issued or purported to be issued under section 56 or 57 by a public authority before the commencement of sections 13 and 28 of the amending Act is, and is taken always to have been, as valid and effective as it would have been if sections 58(1)(c)(iia) and 145A were in effect at the time of the issue or purported issue.

        [Section 208 inserted: No. 37 of 2012 s. 30.]