New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE ACT 2011 - SECT 6

6 Plumbing and drainage work to be carried out only by authorised persons

(1) A person must not do any kind of plumbing and drainage work unless the person--

(a) holds an endorsed contractor licence or a supervisor certificate in force under the Home Building Act 1989 authorising the holder to do that kind of work, or

(b) does the work under the immediate supervision of the holder of such a licence or certificate, or

(c) holds a tradesperson certificate in force under the Home Building Act 1989 authorising the holder to do that work under supervision and does that work under the general supervision of the holder of a licence or certificate referred to in paragraph (a).

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.

(2) A person cannot be found guilty of both an offence under this section and a similar offence under another Act in respect of the same work done on the same occasion.

(3) A
"similar offence" under another Act is an offence under another Act constituted by doing work that can only be done by or under the supervision of the holder of an authority under the Home Building Act 1989 .

Note : The Hunter Water Act 1991 , the Local Government Act 1993 , the Sydney Water Act 1994 , the Water Industry Competition Act 2006 and the Water Management Act 2000 contain similar offences. Those offences apply to any water supply, sewerage or drainage work that affects the infrastructure of a network utility operator.