Victorian Current Acts

BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 227J

    (1)     If an authorised person believes on reasonable grounds that a person may have contravened this Act or the regulations, the authorised person may apply to the Magistrates' Court for an order requiring any person at a time and place specified by the authorised person—

        (a)     to answer orally or in writing any questions put by the authorised person in relation to the alleged contravention; or

        (b)     to supply orally or in writing information required by the authorised person in relation to the alleged contravention; or

        (c)     to produce to the authorised person specified documents or documents of a specified class of document relating to the alleged contravention.

    (2)     The Magistrates' Court may make the order if the Court is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a person may have contravened this Act or the regulations.

    (3)     An order must state a day on which the order ceases to have effect.

    (4)     If an order does not state a day on which the order ceases to have effect, the order ceases to have effect 28 days after the making of the order.

S. 227K inserted by No. 21/2017 s. 46.