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BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 104 Orders to owners, occupiers or builders

BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 104

Orders to owners, occupiers or builders

    (1)     An emergency order may require the owner or occupier of a building or land or a place of public entertainment

        (a)     not to conduct or not to allow the conduct of a public entertainment or immediately cease to conduct a public entertainment; or

        (b)     to within a specified time stop building work or to carry out building work or other work necessary to make the building, land or place safe or to secure the building, land or place from access.

    (2)     An emergency order may require the owner of a building or land or a place of public entertainment to cause an inspection of that building, land or place to be conducted by a specified person within a specified time.

S. 104(3) amended by No. 46/2018 s. 39(1).

    (3)     An emergency order may require the owner of a building or a place of public entertainment or a builder to cause specified material used in that building or place to be tested (other than destructively tested) by a specified person within a specified time.

S. 104(4) inserted by No. 46/2018 s. 39(2).

    (4)     An emergency order may require the owner of a building or a place of public entertainment that is a building, or a builder, to, in accordance with the regulations (if any), arrange for, within a specified time, a specified building product or material used in that building to be subjected to destructive testing conducted by a prescribed testing authority if the municipal building surveyor believes on reasonable grounds that the use of the building product or material is connected with a contravention of this Act or the regulations.

S. 104(5) inserted by No. 46/2018 s. 39(2).

    (5)     An owner or builder referred to in subsection (4) must provide the results of the destructive testing of the building product or material to the municipal building surveyor or another person authorised by the municipal building surveyor to receive the results within the time specified in the emergency order.

S. 105 substituted by No. 21/2017 s. 31.