Design and Building Practitioners Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2022
Amendments have been made to the Design & Building Practitioners Regulation. Most of the amendments commenced 2 March 2022.
This is a summary of the amendments to the Regulation:
(a) to require a building practitioner who intends to install ground anchors on neighbouring land to provide evidence of the legal authority to install the anchors to the Secretary before the work commences,
(b) to require evidence in certain circumstances of the following—
(i) destressing of temporary ground anchors,
(ii) removal of reinforcement tendons from removable ground anchors,
(c) to prescribe professional bodies of engineers and recognised engineering bodies as relevant agencies for the purpose of exchanging certain information with the Secretary,
(d) matters relating to the recognition scheme for professional bodies of engineers including the following—
(i) applications for recognition,
(ii) applicable fees,
(iii) conditions on recognition, including the variation of conditions,
(iv) renewal of recognition,
(v) suspension or cancellation of recognition,
(e) to exempt building practitioners from certain insurance requirements until 30 June 2023,
(f) to set out the relevant practical experience required for registration in the design practitioner—architectural class,
(g) to set out the qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills required for registration in the design practitioner—architectural with a condition for medium rise work class and the type of work authorised to be carried out by a person registered in that class,
(h) to set out the qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills required for the following building practitioners with conditions on registration and the type of work authorised to be carried out—
(i) building practitioner—body corporate nominee with a condition for low rise work
(ii) building practitioner—body corporate nominee with a condition for medium rise work,
(iii) building practitioner—general with a condition for low rise work,
(iv) building practitioner—general with a condition for medium rise work,
(i) to prescribe certain offences as penalty notice offences,
(j) to make minor amendments to update terminology and cross-references
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