Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

BUILDING ACT 1972 (REPEALED) - SECT 54

    (1)     A person must not occupy or use, or permit someone else to occupy or use, a building or part of a building unless—

        (a)     the building controller has issued a certificate of occupancy for the building or part of the building; or

        (b)     for a building erected or altered before the commencing date or to which the repealed laws continue to apply—a certificate in accordance with the Canberra Building Regulations , regulation 69A has been issued for the building or part of the building.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (2)     If the building controller has issued a certificate of occupancy for only a part of a building (the approved part ), a person must not use, or permit someone else to use, any other part of the building for which no certificate of occupancy has been issued, except for a purpose incidental to the use of the approved part.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (3)     In this section:

"building" does not include a building for which a certificate of regularisation has been issued.