BUILDING ACT 2004 - SECT 89C Standard conditions for residential building work contract

BUILDING ACT 2004 - SECT 89C

    (1)     A regulation may prescribe the following for a residential building work contract:

        (a)     a standard condition;

        (b)     the meaning of a term used in a residential building work contract (a prescribed term ).

    (2)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person enters into a residential building work contract; and

        (b)     under the contract the person—

              (i)     is required to carry out residential building work; or

              (ii)     sells a residential building, or part of a residential building, and carrying out residential building work is involved in the contract; or

              (iii)     arranges for someone else to carry out residential building work; and

        (c)     the residential building work contract does not include—

              (i)     each standard condition; or

              (ii)     if the residential building work uses a prescribed term—the meaning of the prescribed term.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

    (3)     An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.