Victorian Current Acts

BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 176A

    (1)     A registered building practitioner or endorsed building engineer or, in the case of a registered body corporate, the nominee director of the registered building practitioner must produce their certificate of registration for inspection if asked to do so by—

        (a)     any person—

              (i)     with whom the registered building practitioner has entered into a major domestic building contract; or

              (ii)     to whom the registered building practitioner has made a statement indicating that the practitioner is willing or prepared to enter into a major domestic building contract; or

        (b)     the owner or occupier of any land or building—

              (i)     on which building work is being carried out by the registered building practitioner; or

              (ii)     to which a major domestic building contract entered into by the registered building practitioner applies; or

        (c)     a private building surveyor in relation to any land or building—

              (i)     on which building work is being carried out by the registered building practitioner; or

              (ii)     to which a major domestic building contract entered into by the registered building practitioner applies; or

        (d)     a VBA inspector; or

        (e)     a plumbing inspector; or

        (f)     a compliance auditor; or

        (g)     a municipal building surveyor or a person authorised by a municipal building surveyor; or

        (h)     an Energy Safe inspector.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

S. 176A(2) inserted by No. 26/2019 s. 125(3), substituted by No. 1/2023 s. 7.

    (2)     In this section—

"certificate of registration" includes—

        (a)     a certificate of registration issued to an endorsed building engineer under the Professional Engineers Registration Act 2019 ; and

        (b)     in the case of a person who has automatic deemed registration as a building practitioner, evidence of the person's home State registration.

Pt 11 Div. 2 (Heading and ss 177– 182) amended by Nos 91/1995 ss 148– 151, 34/1997 ss 12, 13, 52/1998 s. 311(Sch.  1 items 10.7, 10.8), 26/2001 s. 11(2), 68/2001 s. 10, 36/2002 s. 11, 36/2008
ss 8– 11, 9/2012 ss 3, 4, 34/2013 ss 10, 34(Sch.  1 items 21–24), 15/2016 s. 18(1)–(3)(6)(7), substituted as Pt 11 Div. 2 (Heading and ss 177– 177D) by No. 15/2016 s. 25.

Division 2—Codes of conduct for building practitioners

New s. 177 inserted by No. 15/2016 s. 25.