New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BUILDING PROFESSIONALS ACT 2005 - SECT 72C

72C Requirements of accredited body corporate

(1) An accredited body corporate must ensure that any certification work that is done in the name of or on behalf of the body corporate is done by a director or employee of the body corporate who is the holder of a certificate of individual accreditation that authorises the director or employee to do that certification work.

Maximum penalty: 1,000 penalty units.

(2) A reference in subsection (1) to certification work that is done in the name of or on behalf of a body corporate includes a reference to certification work done in the name of or on behalf of a council that has engaged the body corporate to undertake that work in its name or on its behalf.

(3) An accredited body corporate must not undertake any certification work during any period in which it does not have at least one director who is an accredited certifier.

Maximum penalty: 1,000 penalty units.

(4) If an accredited body corporate has failed, for a continuous period of 3 months, to have as directors or employ at least 3 persons who are accredited certifiers, the accredited body corporate must not undertake any certification work until it has as directors or employs at least 3 persons who are accredited certifiers and has notified the Board in writing of that fact.

Maximum penalty: 1,000 penalty units.