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Registration as a Design or Building Practitioner - New South Wales

Description

You will need this registration to work on a regulated building as a Design or Building Practitioner. There are three variations of Design and Building Practitioners:

  • Design Practitioner - responsible for making design compliance declarations.
  • Principal Design Practitioner - an optional role which coordinates and collects designs and declarations from other practitioners. They can lodge these documents on the building practitioner's behalf. Where a principal design practitioner is not appointed, the building practitioner or their nominated delegate will lodge documents.
  • Building Practitioner - agrees to oversee building work. They are responsible for making building compliance declarations and lodging documents. They must lodge declared designs and a building compliance declaration prior to the application for an occupation certificate. A design or principal design practitioner cannot do this.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

To apply for registration as either a Design Practitioner, a Principal Design Practitioner or a Building Practitioner, you must satisfy the eligibility criteria for your specified class of registration.

Ongoing eligibility requirements

You will need to ensure you maintain your registration by:

  • complying with the required professional and ethical standards
  • completing at least three Continuing Professional Development hours each year using courses available from the Construct NSW Digital Learning Platform and the Australian Building Codes Board National Construction Code CPD system, keeping written records to provide as evidence of completion
  • keeping records in a form that can be readily inspected for at least ten years, even if you cease to be a registered practitioner.

Duration

1, 3 or 5 years

Fees

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Act(s) name

Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 New South Wales

Regulation(s) name

Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2021 New South Wales

Administering agency

Building Commission NSW

Contact details

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