WESTERN AUSTRALIA
BUILDERS' REGISTRATION
AMENDMENT ACT 1991
No. 60 of 1991
AN ACT to amend the Builders' Registration Act 1939 and the
Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899.
[Assented to 30 December 1991]
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
PART 1—PRELIMINARY
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Builders' Registration Amendment
Act 1991.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which the
Home Building Contracts Act 1991 comes into operation.
| No. 60] | Builders' Registration Amendment Act 1991 |
PART 2—BUILDERS' REGISTRATION ACT 1939
Principal Act
In this Act the Builders' Registration Act 1939* is referred to as the principal Act.
3.
[*Reprinted as approved 10 February 1981 and amended by Acts Nos. 10 of 1982, 39 of 1983, 14 of 1984, 8 of 1986, 77 of 1987 and 93 of 19901
Long title amended
4.
The long title to the principal Act is amended by deleting "thereto," and substituting the following
i4
thereto; to establish a committee with jurisdiction in respect
of certain building disputes, ".
Section 2 amended
Section 2 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after the definition of "Company" the following definition
5.
"Disputes Committee" means the Building Disputes
Committee established by section 26. ".
Section 3 amended and transitional provision
6. (1) Section 3 of the principal Act is amended
| (a) | in subsection (1) by deleting "This Act applies" and substituting the following- |
" Sections 4 to 24 apply ";
and
| Builders' Registration Amendment Act 1991 | [No. 60 |
(b) by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection
'C
(la) Notwithstanding subsection (1), sections 12A and 12B apply throughout the State to building work that is home building work as defined in the Home Building Contracts Act 1991. ".
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), section 12A of the principal Act does not apply to any home building work as defined in the Home Building Contracts Act 1991 carried out before the coming into operation of this section outside the areas described in the Schedule to the principal Act.
Various sections amended
7. The principal Act is amended by deleting "chairman" in the provisions referred to in the Table to this section and substituting in each case the following-
" chairperson ".
TABLE
| section 5A (1) | section 18 (1) |
| section 5B (2) | section 20 |
| section 5C (1) | section 20A (1) |
| and (2) | section 21 (2) |
section 6 (2)
Section 5A amended
S. Section 5A of the principal Act is amended by repealing
subsection (2) and substituting the following
IC (2) The chairperson shall be a person who is a practitioner
as defined by the Legal Practitioners Act 1893 and who is
nominated as chairperson by the Minister. ".
| No. 60] | Builders' Registration Amendment Act 1991 |
Section 5AA inserted
9. After section 5A of the principal Act the following section is inserted
Further provisions as to chairman
Ci
5AA. (1) The appointment of the chairperson may be made either on a full-time or a part-time basis.
(2) Where, immediately before…