Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

BUILDING ACT - SECT 33

    (1)     If, in the course of the investigation, a building practitioner:

        (a)     refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any reasonable request from the Director to answer a question, provide information or produce a document; or

        (b)     in purported response to a request from the Director, gives an answer, provides information or produces a document that is false or misleading,

the Director may refer the matter to the Practitioners Board for inquiry.

    (2)     A person must not, without reasonable excuse:

        (a)     refuse or fail to comply with a requirement of the Director under section 32(1); or

        (b)     obstruct or hinder the Director in the exercise of a power under section 32.

Penalty:     If the offender is a natural person – $5 000.

    If the offender is a body corporate – $50 000.