Section 17
Section 17
(1)
Any person who undertakes work which is required by this Act or the building regulations to be performed by an accredited checker when he is not an accredited checker under this Division or when his registration is suspended is guilty of an offence.
(2)
Any person who undertakes any work on behalf of an organisation, being work which is required by this Act or the building regulations to be undertaken by an accredited checker who is either a director, partner, member or an employee of an accredited checking organisation when —
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(a)
it is not registered as an accredited checking organisation under this Division; or
(b)
its registration is suspended, is guilty of an offence.
(3)
If an accredited checker undertakes work on his own behalf as an accredited checker in relation to building works, the value of which is more than —
(a)
$10,000,000, if no other sum is prescribed under paragraph (b); or
(b)
such sum as the Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, specify, the accredited checker is guilty of an offence.
(4)
If an organisation which is not registered as an accredited checking organisation under this Division advertises or holds itself out or describes itself in any way to be an accredited checking organisation, that organisation is guilty of an offence.