Statutes Amendment Bill

Members, we come now to Part 5. Part 5 is the debate on clauses 19 to 21, “Amendments to Building Act 2004”. The question is that Part 5 stand part.

Just a brief question on this part, because it is a relatively short part. It appears that waivers and modifications under section 67 of the Building Act relate to the building code, and then 67A, I think, relates to swimming pools, in that there’s a separate regime—I think under a separate Act, actually—for swimming pools, and that’s reflected also in the section 177 amendment in the Statutes Amendment Bill.

I’m curious as to why the words “the building code” are removed, because I’m assuming that section 67 waivers or modifications or the applications for determinations are still under the building code and seems to be a kind of retrograde step to no longer refer to waiver and modifications and determinations under the building code, because it simply lacks clarity. Even if section 67A is about swimming pools, section 67 is still absolutely about the building code. So I’m just wondering why there’s the removal of the words “building code” in those clauses.

Thank you, Madam Chair. For both clauses 20 and 21, I’m advised that these are consequential amendments that should have been made in 2017, but they were missed.

Part 5 agreed to.

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