Building Services (Registration) Regulations 2011 (WA)

Western Australia

Building Services (Registration) Act 2011

Western Australia

Building Services (Registration) Act 2011

Building Services (Registration) Regulations 2011

These regulations are the Building Services (Registration) Regulations 2011.

These regulations come into operation as follows —

• (a)

  regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;

• (b)

  the rest of the regulations — on the day on which Part 3 of the Act comes into operation.

In these regulations —

builder work has the meaning given in regulation 13;

Building Code means the Building Code of Australia which is volumes 1 and 2, as amended from time to time, of the National Construction Code;

building engineering work has the meaning given in the Building Services (Complaint Resolution and Administration) Regulations 2011 regulation 4B(1);

building surveying work level 1 has the meaning given in regulation 28A;

building surveying work level 2 has the meaning given in regulation 28A;

certificate of building compliance means a certificate that complies with the Building Act 2011 section 57;

certificate of construction compliance means a certificate that complies with the Building Act 2011 section 56;

certificate of design compliance means a certificate that complies with the Building Act 2011 section 19;

compliance certificate means —

• (a)

  a certificate of building compliance; or

• (b)

  a certificate of construction compliance; or

• (c)

  a certificate of design compliance;

National Construction Code means the National Construction Code series published by, or on behalf of, the Australian Building Codes Board;

National Register has the meaning given in the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Commonwealth) section 3;

owner‑builder, in relation to building work, means a person who has an owner‑builder approval granted under the Building Services (Registration) Act 2011 section 45 to carry out the building work;

painter work has the meaning given in regulation 28;

principal builder, in relation to builder work, means a person who carries out, or undertakes to carry out, the builder work for another person but does not include —

• (a)

  a person engaged as a subcontractor to carry out all or part of the builder work; or

• (b)

  a person who carries out, or undertakes to carry out, all or part of the builder work for an owner‑builder;

section means section of the Act;

storey has the meaning given in the Building Code Schedule 3.

[Regulation 3 amended: Gazette 12 Mar 2012 p. 990 and p. 1008; 31 Mar 2017 p. 1941-2; SL 2020/196 r. 11; SL 2021/86 r. 15; SL 2021/213 r. 4; SL 2022/101 r. 4; SL 2023/64 r. 4.]

For the purposes of the definition of prescribed building service in section 3 the following building services are prescribed —

• (a)

  builder work as a principal builder;

• (ba)

  building surveying work level 1 as the person issuing…