Home Building Amendment (Temporary Exemption) Regulation 2008 (NSW)

2008 No 565

New South Wales

Home Building Amendment

(Temporary Exemption) Regulation

2008

under the

Home Building Act 1989

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Home Building Act 1989.

VIRGINIA JUDGE, M.P.,

Minister for Fair Trading

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Home Building Regulation 2004 to extend the period during which contracts of insurance are exempt from certain requirements of the Home Building Act 1989. Those requirements extend the operation of contracts of insurance so that:

(a)	a contract of insurance in relation to residential building work at a stated address extends to any residential building work done at that address by a contractor (whether or not the contractor is named in the contract of insurance), and
(b)	a contract of insurance in relation to the supply of a kit home at a stated address extends to the supply of any kit home at that address by a contractor (whether or not the contractor is named in the contract of insurance).

The Regulation will extend the exemption from those requirements to 31 December 2009.
This Regulation is made under the Home Building Act 1989, including sections 103C and 140

(the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 157 of 12 December 2008, page 11900	Page 1
2008 No 565
Clause 1	Home Building Amendment (Temporary Exemption) Regulation 2008

Home Building Amendment (Temporary Exemption)

Regulation 2008

under the

Home Building Act 1989

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Home Building Amendment (Temporary
Exemption) Regulation 2008.

2 Amendment of Home Building Regulation 2004

The Home Building Regulation 2004 is amended by omitting “31 December 2008” wherever occurring in clause 73 and by inserting instead “31 December 2009”.

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