Moratorium

Moratorium

Subsidy

Task Force

Review of Building Regulation

Cadet Program

Building Certification Compliance

The Minister for Planning and Lands, the Hon Delia Lawrie, announced in Parliament a package of initiatives to achieve a higher level of compliance under the Building Act. The package consists of:

Moratorium

The moratorium will allow existing buildings within declared building control areas to achieve compliance by 30 June 2011.

• Moratorium Fact Sheet

Subsidy

A subsidy will reduce the cost for building certifiers to travel to Tier 2 Building Control Areas (excluding Brewer Estate) for inspection purposes. The subsidy is:

• for travel in connection with both existing and new buildings;
• based on $2 per kilometre plus accommodation;
• valid for travel carried out from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2011.

For further information on the travel subsidy, please see:

• Travel Subsidy Policy
• Travel Subsidy Fact Sheet
• Travel Subsidy Registration Form
• Travel Subsidy Claim Form

For details of the different certification requirements in declared Tier 1 and 2 areas, please see the Building Control Areas Fact Sheet.

To check if your property is within a building control area, please access the Building and Highway Control Areas search application.

Task Force

The Minister appointed a task force to oversee compliance of buildings owned and leased by Government. The task force delivered its first report outlining what is required to ensure all government owned and leased buildings across the Territory are certified by mid 2010.

• NT Government Taskforce Report
• Report Fact Sheet
  

Review of Building Regulation in the NT

The Government has released a discussion paper entitled Building Regulation in the NT for comment by the building industry and the community. A building industry representative group (BIRG) has been appointed to manage the consultation and to receive submissions on the issues raised in the discussion paper. The relevant documents are:

• Minister's letter
• Discussion paper including
  • Queensland Review of the NT's building certification system

• Attachment to Queensland Review
• Building Practitioners Board Report on the Review
• BIRG Terms of Reference
• Outline for submissions

Written submissions should be received by the BIRG by 20 November  2009.

Cadet Program

The Government intendes to introduce a cadet program to grow the capacity of building certifiers in the NT.

Further Information

Building Advisory Services Branch administers the Building Act and is able to provide assistance to property owners with:

• information on building certifiers;
• information on the building certification process; and
• access to property files by owners and authorised persons.

 

For further information on the status of your property please contact:
Location of property	Telephone	Email
Darwin	8999 8965 or 8999 8966	BAS Darwin
Katherine	8973 8926	BAS Katherine
Alice Springs	8951 9235	BAS Alice
Tennant Creek	8951 9235	BAS Tennant