NHBRC - Renovations and additions are excluded from NHRBRC act

Think the NHBRC covers additions or renovations to your existing property? Read here first:

Builders constructing new residential dwellings must enrol such buildings with the National Home Builders Registration Council ("NHBRC") established under the Housing Consumers Protection Measures Act and pay the required enrolment fees.

In the judgment of Maurice Leas t/a Build4You v Roeland Kerchoven and another, Case No.: 28811/2007, the Witwatersrand Local Division decisively took the view that subsequent additions or renovations to existing premises were excluded from the provisions of the Act, according to an article by attorney Bridgett Majola of Durban’s Shepstone & Wylie Attorneys in the company’s Corporate and Commercial Department Flyer July 2008.

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