Registration and licensing of building trades Victoria
Registration and Licensing of Building Trades Victoria
Overview
Building trades play an important role in the building industry. Recent amendments were made to the Building Act 1993 to provide for the registration and licensing of practitioners who carry out these trades. Certain building work will require registration or a licence to perform. To have effect, the new framework will require regulations to be made. The Victorian Government is currently developing these regulations, which will specify what building work can only be carried out by a registered trade contractor or subconstractor, or licensed employee (prescribed work), who will need to be registered and licensed, and the requirements for registration and licensing.CLICK HERE to have your say!!
The objectives of the regulations are to deliver:- greater individual accountability for non-compliant building work through the application of appropriate disciplinary processes to building trades;
- confidence that people who carry out or perform prescribed work have adequate qualifications, skills and experience to do so;
- incentives for improved skills formation in the building industry (including completion of apprenticeships);
- consistency between the approach taken to trade contractors and building trade employees;
- a reduction in the incidence of non-compliant building work; and
- a staged approach to transition to registration and licensing.
Initial Consultation
Have your say on what building trades should be registered and licensed first
Consultation paper & information sheet
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Consultation paper & information sheet
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It is important that the new registration and licensing schemes are introduced with as little disruption to industry as possible. Your input is sought to help identify appropriate criteria to select priority areas of building work, and compile a complete list of building trades to apply this criteria to. As part of this consultation stage, we also seek your views on:- the scope of work each trade performs
- how each trade is generally engaged (i.e. employed, contracted, sub-contracted or a combination)
- the acceptable minimum level of competency – training and practical experience – which should be required for each trade for registration and licensing.
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