Building Regulations 2018: Certificates of Consent

Certificates of Consent

• A certificate of consent must contain the following information:
  • Date of issue
  • Description of the proposed domestic building work
  • Address of the land where the work will be carried out
  • Details of the cost of the proposed domestic building work
  • Identification number of the certificate
  • Owner's details: name, address, telephone number, and ABN, ACN, or ARBN (if applicable)
  • If the applicant is not an owner, their details: name, address, telephone number, and ABN, ACN, or ARBN (if applicable)
  • If the owner is a body corporate, names of all directors
  • If the land is subject to a trust, name of the trust and names of all trustees

Register of Certificates of Consent

• The register kept by the Registrar of the Authority must contain:
  • Date of issue of the certificate
  • Identification number of the certificate
  • Address of the land to which the certificate relatesHere are the study notes for the Building Regulations 2018:
• Part 1—Preliminary*
• Objectives of the regulations:
  • Remake with amendments the regulations controlling building design, construction, and use
  • Prescribe standards for building construction and demolition
  • Prescribe standards for safety in places of public entertainment
  • Regulate matters related to building use and maintenance
  • Prescribe requirements for single dwellings and associated buildings
  • Prescribe requirements for fire safety and safety measures
  • Prescribe requirements for swimming pools and spas
• Part 6—Projections beyond Street Alignment*
• Projections beyond street alignment
• Architectural features (narrow, medium, wide streets)
• Windows and balconies
• Verandahs
• Service pipes, rainwater heads, and service installations
• Window shutters
• Signs
• Service cabinet doors
• Report and consent required
• Footings adjoining boundaries are permissible
• Part 7—Protection of Adjoining Property and the Public*
• Protection of adjoining property by means of protection work
• Matters relevant to building surveyor determining if protection work is required
• Protection work notice
• Protection work response notice
• Notice of relevant building surveyor's determination
• Protection of the public
• Demolition
• Excavations and retaining walls
• Part 8—Building Work*
• Methods of assessment of compliance
• Testing of materials
• Fire performance requirements
• Certificates of compliance
• Registered building practitioner or endorsed building engineer documentation
• Evidence of suitability
• Forms of certificates of compliance
• Special provisions
• Record of pile-driving
• Branding of timber
• Requirements for permits involving fire safety matters
• Report and consent for building over easements
• Report concerning need for electricity substations
• Report and consent for septic tank systems
• Stormwater drainage
• Buildings above or below certain public facilities
• Part 9—Fire Safety Requirements*
• Definition of owner
• Automatic smoke detection and alarm systems
• Residential care buildings—automatic fire suppression systems
• Shared accommodation buildings—automatic fire suppression systems
• Modification to the BCA Volume One in relation to fire sprinkler system requirements
• Part 9A—Safety Requirements for Swimming Pools and Spas*
• Application of this Part
• Requirements for barriers for swimming pools and spas
• Maintenance and operation of barriers for swimming pools and spas
• Registration of swimming pools and spas
• Certain swimming pools and spas exempted from registration
• Prescribed information for swimming pool and spa registers
• A register must be maintained in a specific form and manner
• Application for registration of swimming pools and spas
• Form and fee for registration application
• Relevant council to register swimming pool or spa on receipt of application
• Relevant council to give a notice to the applicant of registration
• Removal of swimming pool or spa from a register
• Inspection and certification of compliance of barriers
• Part 10—Designation of Special Areas for Building Work*
• Mapping of designated special areas
• Alteration to and creation of designated special areas
• Termite risk areas
• Construction in termite risk areas
• Significant snowfall areas
• Report and consent for building in areas liable to flooding
• Report and consent for construction on designated land or designated works
• Part 11—Bushfire Safety*
• Construction in designated bushfire prone areas
• Relevant building surveyor to accept bushfire attack level in planning scheme or site assessment
• Requirements for buildings replacing buildings destroyed in the 2009 bushfires
• Static water supply for fire fighting purposes
• Access for emergency vehicles
• Report and consent required for non-complying static water supply and access
• Private bushfire shelters
• Part 11A—Emergency Provisions*
• Definition of emergency
• Emergency accommodation buildings
• Intended occupier to notify the relevant council of intended occupation
• Occupation of emergency accommodation building prohibited before notified commencement date
• Municipal building surveyor may inspect emergency accommodation building
• Requirements for emergency accommodation buildings
• Exemption from certain requirements for emergency accommodation buildings
• Part 12—Inspections, Notices, and Orders, and Register of Powers of Entry*
• Inspections and directions
• Prescribed mandatory notification stages for construction or alteration of building
• Omission of irrelevant mandatory notification stage
• Building permit must specify mandatory notification stages
• Relevant building surveyor to keep and make available directions to fix building work
• Persons carrying out inspections
• Relevant building surveyor to give documents to the person to whom the order was given
• Emergency orders
• Form of emergency orders
• Building notices
• Form of building notice
• Building orders
• Form of building orders
• Additional information in order or notice served in accordance with section 236(4A) of the Act
• Register of exercise of powers of entry
• Part 13—Occupancy Permits and Certificates of Final Inspection*
• Application of this Part
• Exemptions from occupancy permit
• Application for occupancy permit
• Reporting authorities for occupancy permit
• Time limits for application to be given to reporting authority
• Time limits relating to the report or consent of reporting authorities
• Time within which relevant building surveyor must decide application for occupancy permit
• Form of occupancy permit
• Relevant building surveyor to provide copy of permit
• Occupancy permit must specify essential safety measures and related requirements
• Conditions on occupancy permit
• Compliance with AS 1851—2012 taken to be compliance with earlier standards
• Display and inspection requirements for occupancy permits
• Owner to make permit available for inspection
• Part 14—Places of Public Entertainment*
• Prescribed classes of buildings or places
• Prescribed temporary structures
• Exemption from permit for temporary structures
• Prescribed place of public entertainment
• Conditions on occupancy permits
• Safety officer qualifications
• Structural design of prescribed temporary structures
• Part 15—Maintenance of Buildings and Places of Public Entertainment*
• Maintenance of essential safety measures
• Maintenance determinations
• Owner to comply with maintenance determination
• Compliance with AS 1851—2012 taken to be compliance with earlier standards
• Maintenance schedules
• Reporting and records
• Owner to prepare annual essential safety measures report
• Contents and form of annual essential safety measures report
• Records relating to essential safety measures must be made available
• Part 16—Existing Buildings*
• Change of use of existing buildings
• Subdivision of existing buildings
• Alterations
• Alterations affecting exits and paths to exits
• Extension of non-complying external wall
• Application of requirements in the BCA Volume One relating to access to buildings for persons with disabilities
• Small live music venue classification
• Part 17—Building Product Accreditation*
• Definitions
• Accreditation persons and bodies
• Application for accreditation
• Application for renewal of accreditation
• Application for variation of accreditation
• Refusal to accredit, renew, or vary an accreditation
• Information in application to remain confidential
• Accreditation fees
• Notice of accreditation, renewal of, imposition of a condition on, or variation of, an accreditation
• Issue or re-issue of a certificate of accreditation
• Revocation of accreditation
• Holder may request revocation of accreditation
• Notice of revocation of accreditation
• Accreditation ceases to have effect on revocation
• Offence to falsely claim product accredited
• Register and records
• Register of accredited products
• Records
• Part 18—Building Practitioners*
• Registration
• Information to accompany application for registration
• Certificate of registration
• Condition of registration
• Authority to be advised of nominee director changes
• Register of Building Practitioners
• Publication of information on Register of Building Practitioners
• Prescribed qualifications and classes of building practitioner and prescribed work
• Prescribed classes of building practitioner
• Prescribed qualifications
• Building surveyor work
• Building inspector work
• Domestic builder work
• Advertisements or written statements by registered building practitioners
• Advertisements or written statements by partnerships
• Probity and discipline
• Authority must be notified of probity matters
• Grounds for disciplinary action
• Grounds for immediate suspension
• Notice of suspension or cancellation of registration
• Professional standards
• Duplicate certificate fee
• Period for which private building surveyor may not act
• Part 19—Appeals and Reviews*
• Appeal periods
• Appeal, referral, and application fees
• Fees for fast track appeals
• Refund of fees by Authority
• Review period
• Part 20—Infringement Notices*
• Authorised officers
• Prescribed offences
• Prescribed penalties
• Part 21—Exemptions*
• Exemptions from building regulations
• Exemption for Class 10 buildings on farm land
• Exemptions relating to building surveyors for certain buildings
• Exemption from certain fees
• Exemption from building permit levy for building work relating to social housing
• Refund of certain building permit levy
• Authority is exempted from calculation and notification requirements
• Part 22—Transitional and Savings Provisions*
• Registration of building practitioners not affected by revocation of Building Interim Regulations 2017
• Domestic builder (manager)
• Appointment of private building surveyor

This quiz covers the information required in a certificate of consent under the Building Regulations 2018. It includes the date of issue and description of proposed domestic building work.