The DBP Act aims to improve the quality of design documentation and compliance with the Building Code of Australia, in line with the recommendations of the Shergold-Weir Report released in April 2018. The supporting material to the draft Regulation highlights the need to ensure that each step of construction is well-documented and compliant. To this end, the Regulation provides detailed administrative requirements for lodging for-construction regulated designs (and variations to them) at set points throughout the design and construction process. The building practitioner cannot start constructing unless it has obtained all regulated designs from the registered design practitioners, and provided and lodged the necessary compliance declarations. This process may potentially slow down building work progress. The diagram below illustrates critical building compliance checkpoints for registered building practitioners.
The object of this Regulation is to provide for the following—
(a) the registration of design practitioners, principal design practitioners, building practitioners and professional engineers (the practitioners),
(b) the form and content of certain regulated designs and compliance declarations,
(c) provision of regulated designs and compliance declarations to the Secretary of the Department of Customer Service,
(d) exclusions to building work and professional engineering work,
(e) the insurance required to indemnify registered practitioners,
(f) the recognition of professional bodies of engineers and the body’s requirements for a recognition or registration scheme,
(g) matters to be included on the register of registrations of practitioners,
(h) the classes of registration for practitioners and the qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills required for registration in a class of practitioner,
(i) continuing professional development requirements for registered practitioners,
(j) the code of practice for registered practitioners,
(k) record keeping,
(l) the offences for which penalty notices may be issued
For full details of the Act and Regulation, please see link below.
Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020
Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2020
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