BUILDING ACT 2004 - SECT 139BA Approval of guidelines
BUILDING ACT 2004 - SECT 139BA
Approval of guidelines(1) The Minister may approve guidelines for this Act.
Note A power given under an Act to make a statutory instrument (including a code of practice) includes power to amend or repeal the instrument (see Legislation Act
, s 46 (1)).
(2) A guideline may set out standards and other matters about building approval applications, documentation, plans and specifications for building work.
(3) An approved guideline is a disallowable instrument.
Note 1 A disallowable instrument must be notified, and presented to the Legislative Assembly, under the Legislation Act
.
Note 2 An amendment or repeal of a code of practice is also a disallowable instrument (see Legislation Act
, s 46 (2)).
(4) The construction occupations registrar must make a copy of a guideline, and any instrument applied (with or without change) by the guideline, available for public inspection during ordinary office hours at—
(a) the office of the construction occupations registrar; or
(b) another place prescribed by regulation.
Note A reference to an instrument includes a reference to a provision of an instrument (see Legislation Act
, s 14 (2)).
(5) In this section:
"applied" includes adopted and incorporated.