Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) For the purposes of an application for registration under section 171(1)(a), the probity requirements are whether in the past 10 years—
(a) the person has been convicted or found guilty (whether in Victoria or outside Victoria) of any offence involving fraud, dishonesty, drug trafficking or violence that was punishable by imprisonment for 6 months or more; or
(b) the person has been convicted or found guilty of an offence under any law regulating building work or building practitioners; or
(c) the person has had any registration, licence, approval, certificate or other authorisation as a building practitioner suspended or cancelled for any reason other than a failure by the person to renew the registration, licence, approval, certificate or other authorisation; or
(d) the person has been convicted or found guilty of an offence against—
(i) section 10, 11, 12, 17, 19 or 21 of the Fair Trading Act 1999 ; or
(ii) section 53, 55, 55A, 56, 58 or 60 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 of the Commonwealth; or
(iii) section 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 50, 151, 157, 158 or 168 of the Australian Consumer Law (Victoria); or
(iv) section 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 50, 151, 157, 158 or 168 of Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 of the Commonwealth; or
(e) the person has been subject to an order of a court or VCAT under the following enactments that has not been complied with within the period required by the court or VCAT—
(i) this Act or the regulations; or
(ii) the Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 or the regulations under that Act; or
(f) the person has failed to meet any other probity requirement prescribed by the regulations.
S. 171D(2) inserted by No. 40/2021 s. 24(2).
(2) For the purposes of an application for registration as a builder subcontractor under section 171(1)(ab), the probity requirements are whether, in the last 5 years, any of the matters in subsection (1) apply to the applicant.
S. 171E inserted by No. 21/2017 s. 7.