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QUEENSLAND BUILDING SERVICES AUTHORITY ACT 1991 - SECT 43A

43A Licensed contractor must ensure building work is adequately supervised

(1) For a licensed contractor that is a company, the company and the company's nominee must each ensure that building work carried out by the contractor is adequately supervised.

Maximum penalty--
(a) for an individual--200 penalty units; or
(b) for a company--1000 penalty units.

(2) For a licensed contractor that is an individual, the contractor must ensure that building work carried out by the contractor is adequately supervised.

Maximum penalty--200 penalty units.

(3) In deciding whether building work is adequately supervised, regard must be had to the following--

(a) whether the licensed contractor has a system for the supervision of the work and, if so, how the system has been implemented;
(b) whether the building work is in accordance with the plans and specifications set out in the contract for the work;
(c) whether the work is of a standard expected of a competent holder of a contractor's licence of the relevant class;
(d) whether, having regard to the size and complexity of the building work, the following are sufficient--
(i) the level of control, oversight and direction exercised by a person authorised to supervise the work;
(ii) the number, timing and quality of inspections carried out by a person authorised to supervise the work;
(e) whether the building work is checked on its completion and before final payment by a person authorised to supervise the work.

(4) In this section--

licensed contractor does not include a licensed contractor that is a construction manager.



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