Our Role and Responsibility

 

The Building Practitioners Board is a statutory body established by the Building Act and has the responsibility for:

• Registering persons as building practitioners;
• Establishment and maintenance of a system of performance reporting on building practitioners to ensure that information on past performance is available and able to be taken into account when assessing the competence of building practitioners;
• Monitoring the compliance of building practitioners with their registration requirements;
• Monitoring the competence to practice and professional conduct of building practitioners;
• Conducting inquiries into work and conduct of building practitioners and, if necessary, to discipline building practitioners;
• Developing and publishing codes of practice about the work and conduct of building practitioners for reference by building practitioners and for use by the Board and the Director in assessing the work and conduct of building practitioners.