New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HOME BUILDING ACT 1989 - SECT 5

5 Seeking work by or for unlicensed person

(1) An individual, a member of a partnership, an officer of a corporation or a corporation must not represent that the individual, partnership or corporation is prepared to do:

(a) any residential building work, or

(b) any specialist work,

if the individual, partnership or corporation is not the holder of a contractor licence authorising its holder to contract to do that work.

(2) A person must not represent that an individual, partnership or corporation is prepared to do:

(a) any residential building work, or

(b) any specialist work,

if the person knows that the individual, partnership or corporation is not the holder of a contractor licence authorising its holder to contract to do that work.

Maximum penalty: 1,000 penalty units in the case of a corporation and 200 penalty units in any other case.