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Building Definition

According to 133 Act, Road, Drainage and Building Act. Division 1, Section 3,

"Building including all houses, huts, sheds or roofed enclosures, whether it is used for living place or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure support or foundation related to the above mentioned.”

Construct a building without any inscribed permission from the Council is an offence and able to get penalty as much of 10 times from plan processing fee (133 ACT, ROAD, DRAINAGE AND BUILDING ACT 1976, SECTION (70) SUB 13 & 14)

Or

Demolish the building at prescribed period specified by the Council (133 ACT, ROAD, DRAINAGE AND BUILDING ACT 1976, SECTION (72) SUB 1(b))

Additional modification includes development which involves breaking or building at least a pole or wall.