BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 230 Register of exercise of powers of entry
BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 230
Register of exercise of powers of entry(1) The Authority must keep a register containing the prescribed information relating to the exercise of a power of entry under Subdivision 5 by any of the following authorised persons referred to in section 228—
(a) a VBA inspector;
(b) a compliance auditor appointed under Part 12A;
(c) a plumbing inspector appointed under Part 12A.
(2) A council must keep a register containing the prescribed information relating to the exercise of a power of entry under Subdivision 5 by any of the following authorised persons referred to in section 228—
(a) a municipal building surveyor of that council or a person authorised by a municipal building surveyor of that council to act on behalf of the municipal building surveyor;
(b) a relevant building surveyor, who is a municipal building surveyor, or a person authorised by the relevant building surveyor to act on behalf of the relevant building surveyor.
(3) Energy Safe Victoria must keep a register containing the prescribed information relating to the exercise of a power of entry under Subdivision 5 by a person acting on behalf of Energy Safe Victoria.
(4) A relevant building surveyor, who is a private building surveyor, must keep a register containing the prescribed information relating to the exercise of a power of entry under Subdivision 5 by the relevant building surveyor or a person authorised by the relevant building surveyor to act on behalf of the relevant building surveyor.
(5) The Authority may inspect a register required to be kept by a person under this section.
(6) The occupier of a building or land, in respect of which a power of entry under Subdivision 5 has been exercised, may request that the person required to keep a register under this section containing information about the exercise of that power provides an extract to the occupier of that information.
(7) A person required to keep a register under this section must—
(a) keep the prescribed information relating to each exercise of a power of entry under Subdivision 5 for 10 years after the date of that entry; and
(b) make the register available for inspection by the Authority on the request of the Authority at a time agreed to between the person and the Authority; and
(c) provide an extract under subsection (6) if so requested.
S. 231 substituted by No. 21/2017 s. 46.