Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act:
"basic building work"—
(a) means the following building work:
(i) erecting a prefabricated class 10a building;
(ii) erecting a class 10a outbuilding;
(iii) installing fireplaces or solid-fuel heaters;
(iv) non-structural work; but
(b) does not include specialist building work.
(2) In subsection (1):
"non-structural work"—
(a) means work on a part of a building that does not, or is not intended to, carry a structural load imposed or transmitted by another part of a building; and
(b) includes work on non-load bearing walls, doors, partitioning, reticulated pipework, ventilation ductwork and building fit-out items; but
(c) does not include the following work:
(i) work that may affect the structural integrity of a structural element of a building, or weaken or remove, completely or partly, the structural element, if the element is installed in a way that it carries, or can carry, a load of part of a building;
(ii) work that involves the use of a structural element to carry, or to possibly carry, a structural load of part of a building.
Example for par (c) (i)
work that affects the existing bracing beams on a multi-storey car park if the bracing beams are designed to bear wind load, even though most of the time they do not carry any load
Examples for par (c) (ii)
1 the installation of a new storey on a building
2 underpinning a subsiding building
Note An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).
(3) The regulations may—
(a) exempt a kind of work from the definition of basic building work ; or
(b) include a kind of work in the definition of basic building work .