Building Practitioners Board

The Building Practitioners Board is established pursuant to section 183 of the Building Act and has three principal functions:

• To administer the registration system for building practitioners being builders (including demolishers), building surveyors, building inspectors, engineers and draftspersons; and To make recommendations to the Minister about the qualifications for registration; and To supervise and monitor the conduct and ability to practice of registered building practitioners.
• The supervision and monitoring of conduct is largely carried out through the holding of disciplinary hearings (Inquiries) into the conduct of building practitioners following either a direct complaint from a member of the public or a referral to the Building Practitioners Board by the Building Commission.
• The Building Practitioners Board, on finding a building practitioner guilty of misconduct, may (amongst other penalties), fine that practitioner or suspend or cancel that practitioner's registration.