BUILDING WORK CONTRACTORS ACT 1995 - SECT 51

BUILDING WORK CONTRACTORS ACT 1995 - SECT 51

51—Licensed building work contractor to have sign showing name etc on each building site

        (1)         A licensed building work contractor must install or erect in a prominent position on the site of any building work performed by the contractor or on the outside of the place where the building work is being performed a sign showing in clearly legible characters—

            (a)         the contractor's name as it appears in the licence or any registered business name in which the contractor carries on business as a building work contractor and of which the Commissioner has been given prior notice in writing; and

            (b)         the contractor's licence number and, where the contractor carries on business as a building work contractor in partnership, the licence number of each partner.

Maximum penalty: $2 500.

Expiation fee: $80.

        (2)         If a licensed building work contractor is performing building work on a site for some other licensed building work contractor performing work on that site, it is sufficient compliance with subsection (1) if the provisions of that subsection are complied with only by that other contractor.