Queensland Consolidated Regulations

BUILDING REGULATION 2006 - REG 18

18 Restrictions on deciding competency

(1) A building certifier may decide an individual is a competent person to give design/specification help or inspection help only under subsections (2) to (4) and section 18A .

(2) If, under a relevant law, the individual must be licensed or registered to be able to give the help—

(a) the individual must be so licensed or registered; and

Example—

The help the subject of the decision is considering whether the design of a building is structurally adequate. The registration required is registration under the Professional Engineers Act 2002 as a civil engineer for structural matters.

(b) the building certifier must assess the individual to be competent to be able to give the help, having regard to the individual’s experience, qualifications and skills for the matter.

(3) If no relevant law requires the individual to be licensed or registered to be able to give the help, the building certifier must assess the individual as having appropriate experience, qualifications or skills to be able to give the help.

Example—

The help the subject of the decision is assessing whether a building complies with the performance requirements for energy efficiency under the BCA, part 3.12 . An individual with the skills to carry out appropriate computer modelling for the assessment has appropriate skills to give the help.

(4) If the chief executive approves guidelines for making an assessment under this section, the assessment must comply with the guidelines.

(5) In this section—

"relevant law" means a law applying in the State that is relevant to practising in the matter the subject of the help.