HOME BUILDING CONTRACTS ACT 1991 - SECT 25K

HOME BUILDING CONTRACTS ACT 1991 - SECT 25K

25K .         Sale contract with owner-builder, owner-builder to give prescribed notice to other party

        (1)         In this section —

        specified period means a period specified in an order made under section 25I for the purposes of section 25F(2).

        (2)         An owner-builder must not, during a specified period, enter into a sale contract in respect of residential building work unless the owner-builder has given the purchaser a notice in the form prescribed by the regulations.

        Penalty: $10 000.

        (3)         A failure to provide a notice in accordance with subsection (2) does not, of itself, invalidate a contract.

        [Section 25K inserted: No. 37 of 2002 s. 17.]