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BUILDING ACT 2004 - SECT 10 Meaning of basic building work

BUILDING ACT 2004 - SECT 10

Meaning of basic building work

    (1)     In this Act:

"basic building work"—

        (a)     means the following building work:

              (i)     erecting a prefabricated class 10a building;

              (ii)     erecting a class 10a outbuilding;

              (iii)     installing fireplaces or solid-fuel heaters;

              (iv)     non-structural work; but

        (b)     does not include specialist building work.

    (2)     In subsection (1):

"non-structural work"—

        (a)     means work on a part of a building that does not, or is not intended to, carry a structural load imposed or transmitted by another part of a building; and

        (b)     includes work on non-load bearing walls, doors, partitioning, reticulated pipework, ventilation ductwork and building fit-out items; but

        (c)     does not include the following work:

              (i)     work that may affect the structural integrity of a structural element of a building, or weaken or remove, completely or partly, the structural element, if the element is installed in a way that it carries, or can carry, a load of part of a building;

              (ii)     work that involves the use of a structural element to carry, or to possibly carry, a structural load of part of a building.

Example for par (c) (i)

work that affects the existing bracing beams on a multi-storey car park if the bracing beams are designed to bear wind load, even though most of the time they do not carry any load

Examples for par (c) (ii)

1     the installation of a new storey on a building

2     underpinning a subsiding building

    (3)     The regulations may—

        (a)     exempt a kind of work from the definition of basic building work ; or

        (b)     include a kind of work in the definition of basic building work .