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DOMESTIC BUILDING CONTRACTS ACT 1995 - SECT 48BA

Protection against liability for assessors

    (1)     An assessor is not personally liable for anything done or omitted to be done in good faith—

        (a)     in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty under this Act; or

        (b)     in the reasonable belief that the act or omission was in the exercise of a power or the discharge of a duty under this Act.

    (2)     Any liability resulting from an act or omission that, but for subsection (1), would attach to an assessor attaches instead to the State.

S. 48B(3) inserted by No. 47/2019 s. 15.

    (3)     If, as a result of the assessor's inquiry under subsection (2)(a), the assessor believes that the domestic building work is defective or incomplete, the assessor must estimate the number of business days required to rectify or complete the work.

S. 48C inserted by No. 15/2016 s. 6.



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