Western Australian Current Acts

BUILDING SERVICES (COMPLAINT RESOLUTION AND ADMINISTRATION) ACT 2011 - SECT 82

82 .         Contravention of remediation notice, action by authorised person

        (1)         If a remediation notice has been given to a person and the person has not complied with it, an authorised person may take the measures specified in the notice.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1) an authorised person may —

            (a)         enter and take possession of a place; and

            (b)         take any other action that is reasonably necessary and incidental.

        (3)         An authorised person’s powers under this section are in addition to the other powers of the authorised person under this Act.

        (4)         The Building Commissioner may recover the reasonable costs and expenses incurred in taking measures for the purposes of subsection (1) in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due from the person to whom the remediation notice was given.

        (5)         In a proceeding under subsection (4), a document apparently signed by the Building Commissioner specifying details of the reasonable costs and expenses incurred is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the details specified.