An Auckland builder has been fined $8000 after carrying out foundation work without a licence and using another practitioner’s credentials without their knowledge.<\/p>\n
Angelo Madut was sentenced in the Manukau District Court after a prosecution brought by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).<\/p>\n
Judge Forrest found Madut guilty of carrying out restricted building work while unlicensed and unsupervised, and of knowingly making a false or misleading statement under the Building Act 2004.<\/p>\n
Madut had been working on foundation construction at an Auckland residential development before he obtained a Licensed Building Practitioner (LBP) licence. Foundation work is classified as restricted building work and must be carried out or supervised by a licensed practitioner.<\/p>\n
During a building inspection, Madut told an inspector another licensed practitioner had supervised the work and provided a copy of that person’s licence. MBIE’s investigation found the practitioner had no involvement in the project and had not authorised the use of their licence.<\/p>\n
MBIE acting national manager of occupational regulation Bevan Yee said restricted building work must be carried out or supervised by licensed practitioners.<\/p>\n
“It is an offence to use another practitioner’s licence without their consent,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Licensed Building Practitioners and the LBP scheme play an important role in giving homeowners and councils confidence that restricted building work is being carried out by appropriately qualified people.”<\/p>\n
Under the Building Act 2004, carrying out restricted building work without the appropriate licence or supervision can result in fines of up to $50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland builder has been fined $8000 after carrying out foundation work without a licence and using another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,687,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-564322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-housing-and-infrastructure","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}