Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

BUILDING ACT - SECT 22

    (1)     A person shall not:

        (a)     take or use the title of building practitioner or building practitioner of a particular category of building practitioners (either alone or in combination with any other words);

        (b)     perform a function or exercise a power of, or work as, a building practitioner or building practitioner of a particular category of building practitioner; or

        (c)     in any way imply that he or she is:

            (i)     registered under this Part; or

            (ii)     authorised to perform a function or work for which registration is required under this Part,

unless he or she is appropriately registered under this Part.

Penalty:     $5,000.

    (2)     Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to an owner-builder carrying out building work permitted to be carried out under the owner-builder certificate.