Western Australian Current Acts

BUILDING SERVICES (COMPLAINT RESOLUTION AND ADMINISTRATION) ACT 2011 - SECT 37

37 .         Building remedy order by Building Commissioner

        (1)         Subject to regulations made under section 11(5), if the Building Commissioner is satisfied that a regulated building service that is the subject of a building service complaint has not been carried out in a proper and proficient manner or is faulty or unsatisfactory, the Building Commissioner may deal with the building service complaint by making a building remedy order.

        (2)         The Building Commissioner cannot make a building remedy order requiring —

            (a)         work to be done of a value estimated by the Building Commissioner to exceed the prescribed amount; or

            (b)         an amount exceeding the prescribed amount to be paid,

                unless the respondent consents to the order being made.

        (3)         Unless a greater amount is prescribed by the regulations, in subsection (2) the prescribed amount is $100 000.

        (4)         The Building Commissioner may make any ancillary or incidental order the Building Commissioner considers appropriate.