Building Amendment Act 2012 (TAS)

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Building Amendment Act 2012

An Act to amend the Building Act 2000 and to amend various other Acts consequentially

[Royal Assent 3 July 2012]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

PART 1Preliminary1Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Building Amendment Act 2012 . 2CommencementThe provisions of this Act commence on a day or days to be proclaimed. 3Effect of certain consequential amendmentsThe amendment by this Act of a provision of any regulations made under any Act does not prevent that provision or any other provision of those regulations from being amended or rescinded by any subsequent regulations. PART 2Building Act 2000 Amended4Principal ActIn this Part, the Building Act 2000 is referred to as the Principal Act. 5Section 3 amended (Interpretation) Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended as follows: (a) by omitting the definition of accredited building practitioner from subsection (1) and substituting the following definitions: accredited building practitioner means a building practitioner who is accredited under Part 4 and whose accreditation is in force and, for the purposes of Divisions 4 , 5 and 6 of Part 4 , includes a person who was accredited at the time certain building work or associated building work was done, or certain conduct engaged in, by that person; accreditation scheme means the accreditation scheme approved under section 19 ; (b) by omitting the definition of Appeal Board from subsection (1) and substituting the following definition: Appeal Tribunal means the Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal established under the Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal Act 1993 ; (c) by omitting the definitions of authorised person and builder from subsection (1) and substituting the following definitions: authorised person means – (a) the Director; and (b) a relevant building surveyor; and (c) a relevant permit authority; and (d) a relevant general manager; builder means – (a) a person engaged by the owner of land or a building to manage or carry out, or certify, building work on the building and includes a construction manager and a demolisher; or (b) if such a person does not exist or is unable to be found, the owner of that building; (d) by omitting "and" from paragraph (a)(i) of the definition of building action in subsection (1) and substituting "or"; (e) by omitting "and" from paragraph (a)(ii) of the definition of building action in subsection (1) and substituting "or"; (f) by omitting the definition of Building Code of Australia from subsection (1) and substituting the following definition: Building Code of Australia means the code produced by the Australian Building Codes Board comprising – (a) Volume One of the National Construction Code Series including any variations or additions in the Tasmania Appendix set out in the Appendices to that Volume; and (b) Volume Two of the National Construction Code Series…

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