South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts71A—Building inspection policies
(1) A council must
prepare and adopt a building inspection policy.
(2) A council must, in
its building inspection policy, specify—
(a) a
level or levels of audit inspections to be carried out by the council on an
annual basis with respect to building work within its area (including
building work assessed by private certifiers under Part 12) involving classes
of buildings prescribed by the regulations; and
(b) the
criteria that are to apply with respect to selecting the buildings that are to
be inspected under the policy.
(3) A council may from
time to time alter its building inspection policy.
(4) A council must,
when preparing its building inspection policy under subsection (2) or
considering an alteration under subsection (3), take into account the
following matters (and may take into account other matters):
(a) the
financial and other resources of the council, and of its local community; and
(b) the
impact that a failure to inspect a certain number of buildings of the relevant
classes over a period of time may have on its local community; and
(c) past
practices of the council with regard to inspections and the assessment of
building work in its area; and
(d)
whether the area, or a particular part of the area, of the council is known to
be subject to poor building conditions; and
(e)
information in the possession of the council on poor building standards within
its local community; and
(f) the
public interest in monitoring the standard of building work within the
community and in taking steps to provide for the safety and health of people
who use buildings.
(4a) A building
inspection policy must comply with any regulation prescribing a minimum level
of inspections to be carried out by the council on an annual basis with
respect to building work within its area (including building work assessed by
private certifiers under Part 12).
(4b) A regulation
under subsection (4a) may prescribe different levels for different
classes of buildings.
(4c) A regulation
cannot be made under subsection (4a) unless the Minister has given the
LGA notice of the proposal to make a regulation under that subsection and
given consideration to any submission made by the LGA within a period (of
between 3 and 6 weeks) specified by the Minister.
(5) This section does
not derogate from the operation of section 99.