Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if a seller of a class 1a or 2 building proposes to—
(a) sell, or invite an offer to buy, the building; or
(b) engage another person to sell, or invite an offer to buy, the building.
(2) The seller must, before the building is offered for sale or an invitation to buy the building is made by the seller or another person engaged by the seller—
(a) prepare or have another person prepare a sustainability declaration for the building; and
(b) sign the declaration.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(3) For subsection (2), the requirement to prepare a sustainability declaration is taken to be satisfied if a person completes the declaration to the best of the person's ability and knowledge.
Example—
The requirement might be satisfied even if a person does not include information about a feature of a building stated in the declaration if the person can not reasonably find out the information or has no technical knowledge about the feature.
(4) Subsection (3) applies despite the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 49(2)(b).