Licensed Building Practitioners Rules 2007
The Licensed Building Practitioners Rules 2007 set out the standards of competence that building practitioners must meet to be licensed, and detail the procedures for assessing competence and issuing licences. The Schedule to the Rules describes the competencies for the Design, Site, Carpentry, Roofing, External Plastering, Bricklaying and Blocklaying and Foundations licence classes. The Rules also detail procedures for managing the suspension and cancellation of licences.
The Rules are set out as follows:
The initial section details the title, commencement date (1 November 2007), and interpretation of specific words used in the Rules.
Part 1 describes the minimum standard of competence required for each licence class by reference to the competencies set out in the Schedule to the Rules. Part 1 also details the licensing application and assessment process and sets out the information that must be provided with an application.
Part 2 details the process of annual contact by the Registrar. Annual contact allows the Registrar to confirm that practitioners wish to continue to be licensed, to update the Register of Licensed Building Practitioners, and to collect levies and fees.
Part 3 establishes processes for the ongoing assessment of practitioners' current competence, including describing the minimum standard for continued licensing, and providing for skills maintenance programmes.
Part 4 details procedures suspending and cancellation of licensing.
Part 5 details requirements about licence identification cards.
Part 6 covers miscellaneous matters, including notice requirements.
Schedule 1 sets out the competencies that make up the minimum standard for each licence class, and the performance indicators that the Registrar will have regard to when determining whether a competency has been met. These currently cover the
licence classes. Competencies for other trade and specialist licence classes may be added in due course.
Schedule 2 lists recognised qualifications for licensing in particular licensing classes (which are kinds of qualifications that reduce information and evidence that an applicant for licensing must provide, and simplify assessments of whether the applicant meets the minimum standards of competence).
These Rules incorporate the following amendments: