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319: Non-payment of fines or costs
or “If you don't pay your fines on time, you might lose your license or have it taken away for a while.”
You could also call this:

“This part explains how the money you owe for building work is collected and paid back.”

When you have to pay charges, fines, or other money under this part of the law, you need to pay them to the Registrar. The Registrar can get this money from you as if it were a debt you owe, even if you are no longer a licensed building practitioner.

It’s important to know that when this section talks about fines, it doesn’t mean fines for breaking other parts of this law. Those are different and aren’t covered by this rule.

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Part 4 Regulation of building practitioners
Licensing and disciplining of building practitioners: Discipline

320Payment and application of charges, fines, and other money

  1. All charges, fines, and other money payable by a person under this subpart—

  2. are payable to the Registrar:
    1. are recoverable as a debt due to the Registrar from that person, whether or not he or she remains a licensed building practitioner.

      1. For the purposes of this section, fine does not include a fine imposed in respect of the commission of an offence against a provision of this Act.