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BUILDING REGULATIONS 2018 - REG 119 Retaining walls

BUILDING REGULATIONS 2018 - REG 119

Retaining walls

    (1)     The municipal building surveyor may require the owner of an allotment to provide retaining walls or other means of maintaining the stability of the soil if the municipal building surveyor considers that the stability of the ground on the allotment or any adjoining property has been or may be adversely affected by any excavation or filling of soil on the allotment.

    (2)     An owner of an allotment must comply with a requirement in relation to the allotment under subregulation (1).

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (3)     Subregulation (1) does not apply if the owner of the allotment is required to provide protection work in relation to an adjoining property under regulation 111.

Division 1—Methods of assessment of compliance