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Information on building regulations, registration, fees, enforcement and more.

  • Building regulatory framework

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  • Renewals and other requirements

    • Annual fee and insurance check
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    • Building insurance requirements
    • Building modifications
  • Prescribed temporary structures

    • Application guidelines
  • Complaints, compliance and enforcement

    • Proactive Inspections Program
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  • Internal review

  • Building fees

  • Security of Payment

    • Making a claim
    • Responding to a payment claim
    • Options if a respondent doesn’t pay or respond
    • SOP adjudication
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    • Adjudication activity statistics
  • Practice notes and resources

  • Building Regulations Advisory Committee

    • Building product accreditation

Building surveyors

Information on regulations, registration, carrying out your role as a building surveyor and more.

  • Building Surveyors' Conference 2021

    • Speakers
  • Practitioner Education Series

  • Building regulatory framework

    • Building classes
    • Ministerial orders
    • NCC 2019
    • Water efficiency labelling and standards scheme
  • Registration

    • What is building surveyor work?
    • What happens after you apply
    • Mutual recognition for building surveyors
    • National police check
  • Renewals and other requirements

    • Annual fee and insurance check
    • Renew your registration
    • Update your contact details
    • Surrender your registration
    • Registration certificate and ID card
    • Insurance requirements
    • Building order referrals
    • Directions to Fix notifications
    • Section 33 notifications
    • Transfer of functions
  • Code of Conduct

  • Building fees

  • Building permits

    • Building permit levy calculator
    • Building permit suspension
  • Building Activity Management System

    • BAMS FAQs
    • Cladding-rectification-levy
    • Cladding rectification levy FAQs
    • BAMS training
    • Privacy data collection notice
    • Terms and conditions and privacy collection notice
  • Building Regulations Advisory Committee

    • Building product accreditation
  • Practice notes and resources

  • Building Surveyor Career Pathways

  • State Building Surveyor Technical Update

Plumbing industry

Information on plumbing regulations, becoming registered or licensed, fees, enforcement and more.

  • Codes and standards

    • Plumbing regulations – 2018 changes
    • Ministerial orders
    • NCC 2019 (Plumbing Code of Australia)
    • Water efficiency labelling and standards scheme
  • Registration and licensing

    • Apply for a plumbing registration
    • Apply for a plumbing licence
    • Apply for a specialised or restricted class
    • Apply for Fire Protection restricted classes
    • Drainage
    • Fire Protection
    • Fire Protection - restricted classes
    • Gasfitting
    • Irrigation (non-agricultural)
    • Mechanical Services
    • Refrigerated Air-conditioning
    • Roofing (stormwater)
    • Sanitary
    • Type B Gasfitting
    • Water Supply
    • TMV
    • Type A Appliance Servicing
    • Type A Appliance Conversion
    • Type B Gasfitting Advanced
    • Backflow Prevention
    • Mutual recognition for plumbers
    • Registration and licensing FAQs
  • Renewals and other requirements

    • Renewals
    • Update your contact details
    • Plumbing insurance requirements
    • Issuing compliance certificates
    • Drain inspection bookings
    • Performance solutions
    • Plumbing modifications
  • Carbon monoxide safety program

  • Complaints, compliance and enforcement

    • Plumbing Audit Program
    • Complaints about plumbing work
    • Infringement notices
    • Proactive Inspections Program
  • Plumbing fees

  • Security of Payment

    • Making a claim
    • Responding to a payment claim
    • Options if a respondent doesn’t pay or respond
    • SOP adjudication
    • Authorised nominating authorities
    • Adjudication activity statistics
  • Technical advice and solutions

  • Approved plumbing products

Owner-builders

Information about applying for an owner-builder certificate of consent, including eligibility, training requirements and more.

  • Being an owner-builder

  • Owner-builder eligibility

  • Application process explained

  • eLearning assessment

  • Construction induction training and white cards

  • Start your application

    • Submitting an owner-builder application
  • Selling an owner-built home

  • Owner-builder FAQs

  • Owner-builder public register

Consumers

Information about building and plumbing matters for property owners, residents and renovators.

  • Home renovation essentials

    • Engaging a builder
    • Engaging a plumber
    • Appointing a building surveyor
    • Ending the employment...
    • Planning and building permits
    • Landscaping
    • Plumbing compliance certificates
    • Building contracts
    • Insurance for building and plumbing work
    • Protecting adjoining properties
    • Energy efficiency requirements
    • At the end of your building project
  • Problems and complaints

    • VBA complaints process
  • Safety guides

    • Smoke alarms
    • Bushfire protection
    • Essential safety measures
    • Carbon monoxide
    • Wood heaters and flues
    • Hot water safety
    • Safety and plumbing products (WaterMark)
    • Flood information
    • Minimising foundation movement
    • Balconies, decks and balustrades
    • Freestanding walls
    • Termites
    • Basketball rings
  • Swimming pools and spas

    • Registration requirements
    • Inspections and compliance
    • Pool safety barriers
    • Installing a new pool or spa
  • Bushfire protection

    • Rebuilding
    • Bushfire areas and overlays
    • Private bushfire shelters
    • Resources
  • Water use

    • Saving water
    • Greywater
    • Stormwater
    • Bore water

Cladding

Information on the Victorian Statewide Cladding Audit and what’s involved in rectifying buildings.

  • Victorian Statewide Cladding Audit

    • Inspections during coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Buying and selling an apartment

    • Buying an apartment
    • Selling an apartment
  • Rectifying my building

  • Fire safety tips

  • Cladding resources

  • Cladding FAQs

  • Cladding by municipality

  • Cladding Safety Victoria

News and events

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