HOME BUILDING ACT 1989 - SECT 47 Production of authority

HOME BUILDING ACT 1989 - SECT 47

47 Production of authority

(1) The holder of an authority must immediately produce the authority for inspection on demand by--

(a) any person with whom the holder has contracted to do residential building work or specialist work or to whom the holder has made a statement indicating that the holder is willing or prepared to do any such work or to enter into a contract to do any such work, or

(b) the owner or occupier of any land, building, vehicle or vessel on or in which the holder is doing residential building work or specialist work or on or in which the holder has contracted to do any such work, or

(c) any person authorised in writing for the purposes of this section by the Secretary, or

(d) any person authorised in writing for the purposes of this section by any local or public authority which is responsible for the control of residential building work or specialist work which the holder is carrying out, or

(d1) in the case of a person performing medical gas technician work--a chief executive officer, or a person nominated in writing by a chief executive officer, of a medical facility, or

(e) any investigator appointed under section 18 of the Fair Trading Act 1987 .

: Maximum penalty--40 penalty units in the case of a corporation and 20 penalty units in any other case.

(2) For the purposes of this section--


"chief executive officer" of a medical facility means the person responsible for the day to day administration of the affairs of the medical facility.


"medical facility" has the same meaning as in the Gas and Electricity (Consumer Safety) Act 2017 .