Home Building (Corresponding Laws) Order 2006 (NSW)

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New South Wales

Home Building (Corresponding Laws)

Order 2006

under the

Home Building Act 1989

I, the Minister for Fair Trading, in pursuance of clause 28A of the Home Building
Regulation 2004, make the following Order.
Dated, this 2nd day of April 2006.

DIANE BEAMER, M.P., Minister for Fair Trading

Explanatory note
The object of this Order is to declare certain laws of other Australian jurisdictions to be laws that correspond to the Home Building Act 1989 for the purposes of clause 28A of the Home Building Regulation 2004. Under that clause, a person is disqualified from holding an authority under the Home Building Act 1989 if the person is disqualified from holding an authority under a corresponding law or is the holder of such an authority that is suspended.

This Order is made under clause 28A of the Home Building Regulation 2004 (definition of corresponding law), which was made under the Home Building Act 1989.

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Home Building (Corresponding Laws) Order 2006

under the

Home Building Act 1989

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Home Building (Corresponding Laws) Order 2006.

2      Definition

In this Order:
the NSW Act means the Home Building Act 1989.

3      Corresponding laws

For the purposes of clause 28A of the Home Building Regulation 2004, the following Acts, including any laws constituted by regulations, orders or other instruments made under those Acts, are declared to be laws that correspond to the NSW Act:

(a)	the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004 of the Australian Capital Territory,
(b)	the Electrical Workers and Contractors Act, the Plumbers and Drainers Licensing Act, the Dangerous Goods Act (in so far as it relates to gas fitters) and the Building Act of the Northern Territory,
(c)	the Queensland Building Services Authority Act 1991, the Electrical Safety Act 2002, the Plumbing and Drainage Act 2002 and the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 of Queensland,
(d)	the Building Work Contractors Act 1995 and the Plumbers, Gas Fitters and Electricians Act 1995 of South Australia,
(e)	the Building Act 2000, the Electricity Industry Safety and Administration Act 1997, the Plumbers and Gas-fitters Registration Act 1951 and the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 of Tasmania (in so far as it relates to gas fitters),
(f)	the Building Act 1993 and the Electricity Safety Act 1998 of Victoria,

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(g) the Builders’ Registration Act 1939, the Painters’ Registration Act 1961, the Electricity Act 1945, the Gas Standards Act 1972 and the Water Services Licensing Act 1995 of Western Australia.

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