Victorian Current Acts

BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 206B

    (1)     The State Building Surveyor has the following functions—

        (a)     to prepare and issue binding determinations on interpreting the standards and requirements for building work and plumbing work that are prescribed by this Act, the building regulations and the plumbing laws;

        (b)     to provide expert technical advice and guidance in relation to building work and plumbing work to building surveyors and persons involved in the building and plumbing industries including by way of publishing guidance materials which may include technical and educative advice;

        (c)     to advise the Minister in relation to significant strategic and regulatory issues within the building and plumbing industries;

        (d)     to represent the State on bodies developing national building and plumbing standards and requirements;

        (e)     to monitor councils' delivery of their building control functions and to provide councils with advice and support on the performance of those functions;

        (f)     to support the delivery of the Authority's functions by providing technical advice relating to building work and plumbing work to the Authority;

        (g)     to engage with building system regulators to enhance the standards and practices within the building and plumbing industries;

        (h)     to monitor developments and trends relevant to building and plumbing standards and building work and plumbing work in the State to support the delivery of the other functions of the State Building Surveyor;

              (i)     to provide training and education on technical matters relating to building work, plumbing work and building surveying work to building surveyors and persons and bodies involved in the building and plumbing industries and on the functions performed by building surveyors;

        (j)     to monitor and report on the performance of the building surveying industry generally including on the carrying out of the State Building Surveyor's regulatory functions under this Act and the regulations;

        (k)     to carry out any other function conferred on the State Building Surveyor by or under this Act or any other Act.

    (2)     When performing the functions under this section, the State Building Surveyor must engage closely with building system regulators and other stakeholders in the building and plumbing industries in order to meet the State Building Surveyor's objectives.

S. 206C inserted by No. 11/2023 s. 14.