Western Australian Current Acts

BUILDING ACT 2011 - SECT 6

6 .         Permit authority for a building or incidental structure

        (1)         The permit authority for a building or an incidental structure is the State if, under section 124, the Minister has decided that the State is to be the permit authority for the building or incidental structure.

        (2)         If —

            (a)         subsection (1) does not apply; and

            (b)         under section 126, a special permit authority is designated by regulations as the permit authority for buildings or incidental structures in an area, or of a kind, specified in the regulations, the permit authority for a building or incidental structure in that area, or of that kind, is the special permit authority.

        (3)         If neither subsection (1) nor (2) applies, the permit authority for a building or incidental structure is the local government in whose district the building or incidental structure is, or is proposed to be, located.