New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT REGULATION 2000 - REG 227A

227A Signs on development sites

(1) This clause applies if there is a person who is the principal certifier or the principal contractor for any building work, subdivision work or demolition work authorised to be carried out on a site by a development consent or complying development certificate.

(2) Each such person must ensure that a rigid and durable sign showing the person's identifying particulars so that they can be read easily by anyone in any public road or other public place adjacent to the site--

(a) is erected in a prominent position on the site before the commencement of the work, and

(b) is maintained on the site at all times while this clause applies until the work has been carried out.

(3) In this clause, the
"identifying particulars" for a person means--

(a) the name, address and telephone number of the person, and

(b) in the case of a principal contractor, a telephone number on which the principal contractor may be contacted at any time for business purposes.

(4) Nothing in this clause requires the erection of more than one sign on a site or prevents the use of an appropriate sign that has already been erected on a site.

(5) This clause does not require a sign to be erected or maintained on a site before 1 July 2004.

Note : See clauses 98A and 136B which require such a sign on a site as a condition of development consent or complying development certificate.