The Bustad Listing Act is a consumer protection law. It is provided to ensure a good balance between the consumer who buys a home that has not been completed at the time of the contract and the professional party who is either responsible for the construction himself, or using his own contractors.
The provisions of the law are invariable in favour of the consumer, but agreements may be freely entered into which the consumer has better rights than those provided by the law.
By a long way, the bustad entry law is (also) an enactment of what was previously unwritten contract law.
The contract standards for use between professionals at the main and sub-levels are also based on unwritten contract law, and must today be considered to provide clear guidelines for applicable contract law whether two professional parties refer to one of these or not. This is stated with the clear proviso that rules with so-called exclusionary effects must be specifically agreed upon.
This mentioned in order to clarify that articles dealing with NS 8407 or NS 8417 may contain interesting substance when one should delve into similar issues in the law on bustad entry as long as consumer protection is kept in mind, and that the law is immutable. In our articles on the law on bustad entry, we are clear about what one must especially take care of as a professional towards a consumer, and then we refer to articles on e.g. NS 8407 where we believe this can provide additional information.
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