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Occupational Licensing (Building Services Work) Regulations 2016
These regulations may be cited as the Occupational Licensing (Building Services Work) Regulations 2016 .
These regulations take effect on the day on which the Occupational Licensing Amendment Act 2016 commences.
building services work determination means the determination, made under section 30 of the Act, as amended from time to time, in respect of 
(a) building services work; and
(b) the classes of building services work; and
(c) any details relating to the classes of building services work;
specified fee means a fee specified in Schedule 2 .
(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in these regulations that is defined in the building services work determination has the same meaning in these regulations as in that determination.
PART 2 - Building Services Work
4. Prescribed work
site plan means a plan of a site, showing site features, boundaries, orientation and access, existing or proposed structures and distribution of services, together with the location of a proposed structure or of proposed work.
(2) For the purposes of the definition of prescribed work in section 3(1) of the Act, work specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 is determined to be prescribed work, unless exempted under section 99(1)(b) of the Act.
(3) Despite subregulation (2) , work specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1 is excluded from the application of the Act.
(4) Work referred to in subregulation (2) is prescribed as building services work for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of building services work in section 3(1) of the Act unless 
(a) excluded from the application of the Act under subregulation (3) ; or
(b) the work is design work carried out by a plumber practitioner (certifier), within the meaning of the Occupational Licensing (Plumbing Work) Regulations 2010 , working within his or her area of competence; or
(c) the work is the preparation of a site plan, or as-constructed plan, in relation to work, or in association with work, carried out by a plumber practitioner (certifier), within the meaning of the Occupational Licensing (Plumbing Work) Regulations 2010 , working within his or her area of competence; or
(d) the work is the preparation of a site plan in relation to work performed on, or in association with work performed on, Class 10 buildings or Class 7b farm buildings.
5. Administrator to be notified of changes
(1) The holder of a building services licence that is not a licensed entity must notify the Administrator in writing within 21 days after any change to the following information:
(2) The holder of a building services licence that is a licensed entity must notify the Administrator in writing within 21 days after a change to the following information, if applicable:
(a) the name of the licensed entity;
(b) a registered business name used in connection with the licence;
(c) a person who is a director or partner of the licensed entity, or a person who is a licensed person for a municipal council;
6. Records of building services work
(1) A building services provider must keep, for at least 10 years after the work is completed, records, in an approved form, of all building services work, undertaken by the building services provider.
(b) an individual, a fine not exceeding 25 penalty units.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation, building services work is completed 
(a) if the building services work is building work or demolition work, other than low-risk work, within the meaning of the Building Act 2016 , on the earlier of the following days:
(i) the day on which a certificate of completion is issued under that Act in respect of the work;
(ii) the day on which the contract to perform the building work, or demolition work, is terminated; or
(b) if the building services work is building work that is covered by a building permit issued under the Building Act 2000 , on the earlier of the following days:
(i) the day on which a certificate of completion is issued under that Act, or the Building Act 2016 , in respect of the work;
(c) if the building services work is building work that is not covered by paragraph (a) or (b) , on the earlier of the following days:
(i) the day on which the work is last attended to by the building services provider;
(ii) the day on which the contract to perform the building services work is satisfied by both parties to the contract or terminated; or
(d) if the buildings services work is not building work, on the earlier of the following days:
(i) the day on which all of the building services provider's statutory obligations in respect of the work under the Building Act 2000 , or the Building Act 2016 , are discharged;
(ii) the day on which his or her engagement as a building services provider in respect of the work ceases under the Building Act 2000 or the Building Act 2016 .
7. Person in prescribed circumstances may perform building services work
commencement day means the day on which the Occupational Licensing Amendment Act 2016 commences.
(2) For the purposes of section 22A(2)(e) of the Act, section 22A(1) of the Act does not apply in respect of a person if 
(a) immediately before the commencement day, the person was, or was engaged or employed by, a building practitioner body corporate or partnership that complied with section 25 of the Building Act 2000 , as in force immediately before the commencement day; and
(b) on and after the commencement day, one or more of the following persons within that body corporate or partnership holds a valid building services licence:
(i) a director of the body corporate;
(ii) a partner in the partnership;
(iii) a permanent employee of the body corporate or partnership; and
(c) on and after the commencement day 
(i) the person is, or is engaged or employed by, that body corporate or partnership; and
(ii) the person is performing building services work that, immediately before the commencement day, he or she could lawfully perform as, or when so engaged or employed by, that body corporate or partnership by virtue of section 25 of the Building Act 2000 , as in force immediately before the commencement day; and
(iii) the person is performing the work referred to in subparagraph (ii) as, or as part of his or her engagement or employment by, that body corporate or partnership; and
(iv) the person, or that body corporate or partnership, has not been refused a building services licence under the Act.
(3) This regulation expires 2 years after the commencement day.
8. Duties of licence holders
For the purposes of section 25(2A) of the Act, all building services work is prescribed.
PART 3 - Owner Builders
9. Prescribed criteria
building authority includes an authority allowing an accredited building practitioner to carry out or manage building work under the Building Act 2000 , and a building services licence.
(2) For the purposes of section 29B(1)(a) of the Act, the prescribed criteria for a person to hold an owner builder permit are 
(a) the person is a natural person; and
(b) the person owns the premises in respect of which the work to be performed under the proposed permit relates; and
(c) the person intends, or another owner builder in respect of the premises intends, to carry out or manage the building work on the premises under the authority of the proposed permit, whether or not that work has commenced before the proposed permit is issued; and
(d) the person does not intend, or another owner of the premises does not intend, to perform permit demolition work, or notifiable demolition work, within the meaning of the Building Act 2016, under the authority of the proposed permit; and
(e) the person and each other owner of the premises has not, other than under a building authority, already carried out or managed building work on 2 or more buildings, in aggregate, of any classification other than any Class 10 buildings or Class 7b farm buildings, in the last 10 years; and
(f) each other owner of the premises meets the prescribed criteria set out in paragraphs (a) , (b) , (c) , (d) and (e) .
10. Owner builder permit not required
A person does not require an owner builder permit under this Part if the person intends to manage or carry out building work 
(a) that is excluded work under items 1 or 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 ; or
(b) in respect of a Class 7b farm building.
11. Obligation to hold insurance, &c.
For the avoidance of doubt, an obligation under the Act in respect of a person performing work as an owner builder is in addition to, and not limited by, any obligation in respect of that person that he or she would be required to meet if performing the work other than as an owner builder.
Division 1 - Fees
12. Fees generally
(2) The fees specified in Schedule 2 
(a) are inclusive of any GST that may be payable in respect of those fees; and
(b) are prescribed as the fees payable to the Administrator in respect of the matter to which they relate.
(3) If an application under these regulations for the issue of a licence is refused, any annual or triennial fee paid in respect of the issue of the licence is to be refunded to the person who paid the fee.
13. Licence fees
A person applying for the issue of a building services licence must pay the fee specified in Schedule 2 for that licence.
14. Additional occupations
In addition to any other specified fee required to be paid, a person intending to apply for, or to renew, a licence in respect of more than one occupation must pay, on application, the fee specified in Schedule 2 for each additional occupation to be included, or renewed, on the licence.
15. Owner builder permit fees
A person applying for the issue of an owner builder permit under these regulations must pay the application fee specified in Schedule 2 for that permit.
(a) an offence against a provision of the Act specified in column 1 of the table in Part 1 of Schedule 3 is prescribed as an offence for which an infringement notice may be issued; and
(b) an offence against a provision of these regulations specified in column 1 of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 3 is prescribed as an offence for which an infringement notice may be issued.
(2) A penalty specified in column 2 of a table in Part 1 or 2 of Schedule 3 is prescribed as the penalty for a body corporate for the relevant offence specified in column 1 of the relevant table.
(3) A penalty specified in column 3 of a table in Part 1 or 2 of Schedule 3 is prescribed as the penalty for a natural person for the relevant offence specified in column 1 of the relevant table.
(4) If an infringement notice is served under section 62 of the Act and is not withdrawn, the authorised officer serving the infringement notice is to forward a copy of the notice to the Administrator.
SCHEDULE 1 - Building services work
PART 1 - Prescribed work
1. Building work or demolition work that is 
(a) work carried out on, or as part of, the construction, erecting or re-erecting, installation, replacement, repair, underpinning, alteration, addition, maintenance, demolition or removal of any premises, building or temporary structure; or
(b) excavating or filling incidental to an activity referred to in paragraph (a); or
(c) the management, carrying out, certification or entering of a contract for any of the types of work in paragraph (a) or (b).
2. Design work that is 
(a) architectural analysis, design and documentation of any premises, building or temporary structure; or
(b) engineering analysis, design and documentation of any premises, building or temporary structure, or of building components and structural systems, including research, analysing criteria, and finding and analysing solutions; or
(c) design of the building services of any premises, building or temporary structure, or of building components or systems, including matters related to the design of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, acoustics, energy management and fire protection components or systems; or
(d) assessment and certification of architectural or engineering designs of proposed building work, hydraulic or plumbing work, or demolition work, including reviews by specialists, experts, and third parties, of designs or performance solutions; or
(e) the management, carrying out, certification or entering of a contract for any of the types of work in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) or (d).
3. Assessment or certification work that is 
(a) assessment and certification of architectural or engineering designs of proposed building work, or demolition work, including work performed for the purpose of obtaining statutory approvals, permits or authorisations to perform that building or demolition work; or
(b) assessment and certification of designs of proposed plumbing work, plumbing installations or hydraulic work, or engineering hydraulic work, including for the purpose of obtaining statutory approvals, permits or authorisations to perform that plumbing work; or
(c) inspection, assessment, testing, reporting, advising, authorisation or certification of building work, premises, buildings or temporary structures; or
(d) inspection, assessment, testing, reporting, advising or certification of plumbing work, plumbing installations, building services-hydraulic work or engineering hydraulic work; or
PART 2 - Excluded work
1. Work that 
(a) is low-risk work within the meaning of the Building Act 2016 ; and
(b) has a value of less than $20 000 if calculated in accordance with that Act; and
(c) is not required under that Act to be performed by a licensed builder, within the meaning of that Act.
2. Work that is performed by a person as part of an investigation of the conditions of a building or premises and performed for the purposes of the person providing a certificate referred to in section 321 of the Building Act 2016 in respect of the building or premises.
Regulations 3 , 13 , 14 and 15
architect has the same meaning as in the Architects Act 1929 .
Provision of Act or regulations
Issue of replacement certificate of identification
Section 29C(c)
Fee for owner builder permit
Annual fee for building services licence in respect of an individual or licensed entity except the occupation of architect
Annual fee for building services licence in respect of an individual or licensed entity for the occupation of architect
Triennial fee for building services licence in respect of an individual or licensed entity except the occupation of architect
Triennial fee for building services licence in respect of an individual or licensed entity for the occupation of architect
Fee for each additional occupation to be included on a licence
SCHEDULE 3 - Infringement notice penalties
Body corporate infringement notices
Natural person infringement notices
Section 22A(1)
Section 22A(3)
Section 25(2A)
Section 29(3A)
Section 29(3B)
Section 38(7)
Notified in the Gazette on 21 December 2016
These regulations provide, for the purposes of the Occupational Licensing Act 2005 
(a) in relation to building services work 
(i) the prescribed work that is building services work for the purposes of that Act; and
(ii) the work that is excluded from being prescribed work that is building services work for the purposes of that Act; and
(iii) the requirement to notify the Administrator of changes to certain details in relation to a building services licence; and
(b) the criteria to be met by a person in order to be eligible to hold an owner builder permit; and
(c) in relation to both building services providers and owner builders 
(i) licensing and other fees; and
(ii) infringement notice offences and other penalties.