Amendments to Compliance Documents

Compliance Documents are reviewed and amended as required. The Department of Building and Housing may amend or replace the whole, or any part of, any Compliance Document at any time.

Find out about how to keep up to date with changes.

Record of amendments 

This record of amendments is current as of 14 July 2008.

Compliance Document		Amendment
		1993	1994	Err 1994	1995	1998	2000	Err 2001	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
	Building Code Handbook	Am 1	Am 2		2nd ed	Am 4	Am 5		Am 6	Am 7	Am 8	Am 9			3rd ed
B1	Structure	Am 1	Am 2		Am 3	-	Am 4		Am 5				Am 6		Am 7	Am 8
B2	Durability	Am 1	-		-	2nd ed	Am 2		Am 3			Am 4
C	Fire safety (amalgamation of C1-C4)						New doc			Am 1	Am 2	Am 3	Am 4 (Jul) Am 5 (Oct)
C1	Outbreak of fire	-	Am 1		-	Am 2
C2	Means of escape	Am 1	Am 2		2nd ed	-
C3	Spread of fire	2nd ed	Am 2		3rd ed	-
C4	Structural stability during fire	2nd ed	Am 2		3rd ed	-
D1	Access routes	Am 1	Am 2		Am 3	2nd ed	-		Am 4
D2	Mechanical installations for access	Am 1	Am 2		Am 3	Am 4	-			2nd ed
E1	Surface water	Am 1	Am 2		Am 3	-	Am 4		Am 5	Am 6
E2	External moisture	Am 1	Am 2		-	2nd ed	Am 3		Am 4			Am 5 (Feb) 3rd ed (Jun) 3rd ed, Am 1 (Sep)	3rd ed, Am 2 (Jun)  Err 1 (Dec)		Am 3
E3	Internal moisture	Am 1	-		-	2nd ed	-		Am 2				Am 3
F1	Hazardous agents on site	-	-		-	-	-		Am 1
F2	Hazardous building materials	-	Am 1		-	-	Am 2
F3	Hazardous substances and processes	-	-		-	-	-		Am 1						2nd ed
F4	Safety from falling	Am 1	Am 2		Am 3	2nd ed	-			Am 4					3rd ed (Sep) Am 1 (Jun)
F5	Construction and demolition hazards	-	-		-	-	-
F6	Lighting for emergency	-	-		Am 1	-	2nd ed								Am 1
F7	Visibility in escape routes	2nd ed	Am 2		Am 3	-	3rd ed				Am 4		Am 5		3rd ed
F8	Signs	Am 1	-		-	-	-
G1	Personal hygiene	Am 1	Am 2		Am 3	-	2nd ed		Am 4						Am 5 (Jun) Err 1 (Jul)
G2	Laundering	-	-		-	-	-		Am 1
G3	Food preparation and prevention of contamination	-	-		-	-	-		Am 1
G4	Ventilation	Am 1	-		-	2nd ed	-								Am 1
G5	Interior environment	-	-		-	-	-		Am 1
G6	Airborne and impact sound	-	Am 1		Am 2	-	-
G7	Natural light	-	-		Am 1	-	-
G8	Artificial light	-	-		-	-	-		Am 1
G9	Electricity	Am 1	-		Am 2	-	-		Am 3						Am 4
G10	Piped services	Am 1	-		Am 2	Am 3	-								Am 4
G11	Gas as an energy source	Am 1	-		-	Am 2	-								Am 3
G12	Water supplies	Am 1	Am 2		Am 3	-	-		2nd ed	Am 4		Am 5			Am 6 (Jun) 3rd ed (Dec)
G13	Foul water	Am 1	-		Am 2	Am 3	-		2nd ed						Am 1 (Jun) Err 1 (Jun) Am 2 (Jun)
G14	Industrial liquid waste	Am 1	-		Am 2	-	-								2nd ed
G15	Solid waste	Am 1	-		-	-	-		Am 2
H1	Energy efficiency	-	-		-	-	2nd ed		Am 1						3rd ed

How to keep up to date with changes to Compliance Documents

It’s important to keep up to date with any amendments to Compliance Documents. Here are some ways you can do this.

• The Department consults with the building industry and wider public before finalising amendments. Discussion documents are available from the consultation section. Notice of consultation, and finalised amendments, are publicised through our publications Codewords and Building Controls Update.
• You can sign up for our email notification service and we’ll let you know about any amendments.
• You can subscribe to the Compliance Documents PDF service offered by Vicbooks . Subscribers pay a year's subscription, during which time any amendments are notified to the subscriber and can be downloaded free of charge. (Vicbooks also sells Compliance Documents in hard copy and CD-ROM format.)

Amendments in development

Find out about upcoming consultation that will result in amendments to the Compliance Documents.

The change process

The process the Department uses for changing Compliance Documents is as follows.

1. Identify need for change to Compliance Document.
2. Appoint project manager and/or establish working group made up of industry representatives.
3. Prepare information for public comment.
4. Public comment.
5. Analyse public comment.
6. New draft for Chief Executive’s approval.
7. Publication.