Building Services (Complaint Resolution and Administration) Amendment Regulations 2012 (WA)

12 March 2012 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 985

Building Services (Complaint Resolution and Administration) Act 2011

Building Services (Complaint Resolution and

Administration) Amendment Regulations 2012

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations are the Building Services (Complaint
Resolution and Administration) Amendment Regulations 2012.

2.             Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	regulations 3 and 4 — on the day after that day;
(c)	the rest of the regulations — on the day the Building Act 2011 section 178 comes into operation.

3.             Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Building Services (Complaint
Resolution and Administration) Regulations 2011.

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4.             Regulation 4A inserted

After regulation 3 insert:

4A. Building services: building surveying work

(1)	In this regulation —
building surveying work means —

(a)	the examination of plans and specifications for a building or incidental structure to assess the safety, accessibility and energy efficiency of a building or incidental structure if the building or incidental structure is built in accordance with the plans and specifications; and
(b)	the examination of an existing building or incidental structure to assess the safety, accessibility and energy efficiency of the building or incidental structure.

(2) Building surveying work is prescribed for the purposes of the definition of building service in section 3 of the Act.

5.             Part 3 Division 1 deleted

Delete Part 3 Division 1.

6.             Regulation 26 inserted

After regulation 25 insert:

26.           Building levy for deemed applications

(1)	In this regulation —
deemed application means an application for a building licence that is to be taken to be an application

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for a building permit under the Building Act 2011

section 178(4).

(2)	A person named as the builder on a building permit that is granted on a deemed application must pay to the permit authority that grants the building permit a building services levy of $41.50.
(3)	The building services levy is payable when the building permit is granted.

By Command of the Governor,

G. MOORE, Clerk of the Executive Council.

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