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 1 July 2009.

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
	Compliance Schedule Handbook														New doc	Am1
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 Am 5
C	Fire safety (amalgamation of C1-C4)						New doc			Am 1	Am 2	Am 3	Am 4 (Jul) Am 5 (Oct)		Am 6	Am 7
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)		3rd ed, Am 3	3rd ed, AM 4
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	Visibility in escape routes	-	-		Am 1	-	2nd ed								2nd ed, Am 1 3rd ed
F7	Warning systems	2nd ed	Am 2		Am 3	-	3rd ed				Am 4		Am 5			Am 6
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	-								2nd ed, Am 1	3rd ed
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

Keep up with amendments

It’s important to keep up to date with any amendments to Compliance Documents. You can do this by:

• Reading our publications Codewords and Building Controls Update.
• Signing up for our email notification service and we’ll let you know about any amendments.
• Subscribing 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.)

Amendments in development

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

The process to change Compliance Documents

The process the Department uses to change Compliance Documents is:

1. Identify the need for change.
2. Appoint a project manager and/or establish a working group of industry representatives.
3. Prepare information for public comment.
4. Seek public comment.
5. Analyse public comment.
6. Prepare a new draft for Chief Executive’s approval.
7. Publication.