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BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 255 Building infringements

BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 255

Building infringements

    (1)     An authorised officer may serve a building infringement notice on the owner or the occupier of any building or land or any person carrying out building work, if the authorised officer has reason to believe that that person has committed a prescribed offence in respect of the building or land.

S. 255(2) substituted by No. 32/2006 s. 94(Sch. item 4(4)).

    (2)     An offence referred to in subsection (1) for which a building infringement notice may be served is an infringement offence within the meaning of the Infringements Act 2006 .

S. 255(2A) inserted by No. 32/2006 s. 94(Sch. item 4(4)).

    (2A)     In addition to the details required under section 13 of the Infringements Act 2006 , the details of the additional steps (if any) required to expiate the offence must be included in an infringement notice served under subsection (1).

    (3)     The prescribed penalty for a prescribed offence is the amount, not exceeding 10 penalty units, prescribed for that offence for the purposes of this Division.