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Posted 17 March 2016
Category: Home Owners Warranty, Construction, Planning Approvals
The Home Building Act 1989 operates in many unexpected ways, for instance a lot of its focus is on managing insurance risk of Builders as opposed to managing quality of construction.
A glaring example of this is that if a licenced contractor is unable to obtain the home warranty insurance from the Home Building Compensation Fund it can perform residential building works of less than $20,000 or construct new residential buildings of four or more storeys of any valueĀ (even tens of millions of dollars).
Builders may now face problems on two fronts:
Following the 2015 reform of the Home Building Act the Office of Fair Trading is undertaking an audit of it records and some contractors are having difficulty obtaining and/or renewing licences particularly if:
We also expect to see that Office of Trading will be issuing penalties where licensed contractors who are or have been subject to bankruptcy, deregistration of their company or a winding-up of their company have not notified the Office of Trading within the relevant 22 January 2015 or 7 day cut off period as required by Section 22 .
The Home Building Compensation Fund is the new insurance fund managed by Icare, in replacement of the Home Warranty Insurance and SICorp.Ā Ā Initial eligibility for HOW insurance and a perpetual rotating review of eligibility is being undertaken by Icare based on a complex assessment of multiple factors which Icare has sought to explain (though not clearly) in a 9 page summary titled āBuilders Guide to Eligibilityā Ā and set out in full in the 90 Page āUnderwriting Guidelines Version 5.1āĀ both of which can beĀ downloaded here. As a result Contractors may unfortunately find that that they will not be granted eligibility for HOW insurance or have had their eligibility taken away for reasons which may at first instance not be clear.
We have been assisting contractors with successful applications and submissions overturning the Office of Tradingās decisions in respect of licensing, penalties and Icareās assessments for eligibility for home warranty insurance and anticipate an increase in the number of applications needing to be made.
Our article dealing with other problems associated with obtaining home warranty insurance, may also be of interest: Please see linkĀ Cannot Get Home Warranty Insurance – What Can You Do?
As the home warranty insurance scheme is under further review and significant further reform in this area is anticipated shortly.
***The information contained in this article is general information only and not legal advice. The currency, accuracy and completeness of this article (and its contents) should be checked by obtaining independent legal advice before you take any action or otherwise rely upon its contents in any way.