Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS ACT 2023 - SECT 8

    (1)     For this Act, professional engineering service —

        (a)     means an engineering service in an area of engineering that requires, or is based on, the application of engineering principles and data—

              (i)     to a design; or

              (ii)     to a construction, production, operation or maintenance activity, relating to engineering; but

        (b)     does not include an engineering service that is provided only in accordance with a prescriptive standard.

    (2)     In this section:

"prescriptive standard" means a document that states procedures or criteria—

        (a)     for carrying out a design, or a construction, production, operation or maintenance activity, relating to engineering; and

        (b)     the application of which, to the carrying out of the design, or the construction, production, operation or maintenance activity, does not require advanced scientifically based calculations.