BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 245 Offences by or relating to registered building practitioners

BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 245

S. 245(1) amended by Nos 33/2010 s. 49(1), 21/2017 s. 17(2).

    (1)     A registered building practitioner must not ask for or receive or obtain, or offer or agree to ask for or receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind (other than the consideration or remuneration payable under his or her contract of engagement or appointment) for himself or herself or any other person, on an understanding that the carrying out by him or her of his or her functions under this Act or the regulations will, in any manner, be influenced or affected or that he or she will not carry out those functions.

Penalty:     500 penalty units, in the case of a natural person;

2500 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.

S. 245(2) amended by No. 33/2010 s. 49(2).

    (2)     A person must not, in order to influence or affect a registered building practitioner in carrying out his or her functions under this Act or the regulations or to influence a registered building practitioner not to carry out those functions—

        (a)     give or confer or promise or offer to give or confer any property or benefit of any kind (other than the consideration or remuneration payable under the registered building practitioner's contract of engagement or appointment) to or on a registered building practitioner or any other person; or

        (b)     remove or threaten to remove any property or benefit of any kind from a registered building practitioner or any other person.

Penalty:     500 penalty units, in the case of a natural person.

2500 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.

S. 246 amended by No. 33/2010 s. 50, substituted by No. 21/2017 s. 52.