Proclamation re commencement (2008-308) (NSW)

2008 No 308

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Building Professionals Amendment Act 2008 No 37

MARIE BASHIR, Governor I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, CVO, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Building Professionals Amendment Act 2008, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 August 2008 as the day on which the following provisions of that Act commence:

(a)	Schedule 1 [1]–[3], [10], [18], [20], [22]–[32], [35], [43] and [49]–[52],
(b)	Schedule 2 [3], [8] (except to the extent that it amends sections 46 and 65), [10] and [11].

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 23rd day of July 2008.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

FRANK SARTOR, M.P.,
Minister for Planning

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence certain provisions of the Building

Professionals Amendment Act 2008 that deal with the following matters:

(a)	enabling different accreditation schemes to be prepared in relation to different classes of accreditation under the Building Professionals Act 2005 (the Principal Act),
(b)	enabling the Building Professionals Board to determine an application for accreditation after the Board has been taken to have refused the application because it was not dealt with within the required time,
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(c)	enabling the Board to cancel or suspend a person’s certificate of accreditation if the Board is of the opinion that the person is not a fit and proper person to hold the certificate,
(d)	extending the circumstances in which the Board can take urgent action to suspend or place conditions on a certificate of accreditation,
(e)	enabling the Board to impose the same range of sanctions for professional misconduct or unsatisfactory professional conduct on the holder of a certificate of accreditation as may currently be imposed by the Administrative Decisions Tribunal,
(f)	amendments streamlining certain disciplinary procedures,
(g)	enabling regulations to be made in relation to terms that must, or must not, be included in certain contracts relating to the carrying out of certification work,
(h)	enabling the making of regulations relating to exemptions from the provisions of the Principal Act or the regulations, the adoption of publications, the creation of offences and savings and transitional matters.

BY AUTHORITY