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 .