Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

BUILDING ACT - SECT 14

    (1)     The functions of the Practitioners Board are:

        (a)     to establish and maintain a system of performance reporting on building practitioners to ensure that information on past performance is available and able to be taken into account when assessing the competence of building practitioners;

        (b)     to register persons as building practitioners;

        (c)     to monitor the compliance of building practitioners with their registration requirements;

        (d)     to monitor the competence to practice and professional conduct of building practitioners;

        (e)     to conduct inquiries into the work and conduct of building practitioners and, if necessary, to discipline building practitioners;

        (f)     to develop and publish codes of practice about the work and conduct of building practitioners for reference by building practitioners and for use by the Board and the Director in assessing the work and conduct of building practitioners; and

        (g)     any other functions imposed on the Board by this or another Act or the Minister.

    (2)     The Practitioners Board has such powers as are conferred on it by or under this or any other Act and, subject to this Act, may do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with or incidental to the performance of its functions and the exercise of its powers.