AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

BUILDING AND SERVICES ORDINANCE 1976

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 18 of 1976

	The Building and Services Ordinance 1976 will amend the existing Building and Services Ordinance 1924-1968 to enable higher penalties to be prescribed in Regulations made under that Ordinance.

	Penalties prescribed in Regulations made under the Building and Services Ordinance 1924-1968 are currently subject to a limitation of $100 for single offences and $10 per day for offences of a continuing nature.  The proposed Ordinance will increase these limitations to $500 and $50 respectively.

	The present limitations were introduced in 1924 and inflation has diminished them to a point where they are no longer sufficient to deter breaches of the Regulations.

	The Ordinance has been agreed to by the A.C.T. Legislative Assembly.