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A STATe PerSPeCTive WeSTern AUSTrAliA BUilDing CommiSSion The Building Commission was established in July 2009 to drive reforms associated with building related matters for the benefit of industry, consumers and the community. A Division of the Department of Commerce, it is made up of the Builder’s & Painter’s Registration Boards, the Plumber’s Licensing Board and the Building Industry Development directorate from the Department of Housing & Works. In combining these entities, the Government has generated efficiencies in the delivery of its services and will improve the framework industry operates within. The Commission runs a suite of reforms associated with building control, complaint resolution, practitioner registration and necessary auditing programs. It is to undertake an extensive implementation program of these reforms as its underlying role is to provide education and training for building related matters. The Commission provides information and advice to industry and the community on the development of building reforms, regulations, codes and standards. Reform of WA’s Building Laws Western Australia is in the final stages of drafting the most significant reforms to the laws governing the building industry in this State for over 7 decades. The reforms will: • streamline the building approval process by providing for private sector certification of compliance with building standards and to provide greater flexibility and certainty in the issue of building permits; • improve building standards through the mandatory inspection and certification of completed buildings; • replace the Builders’ Registration Act 1939 and the Painters’ Registration Act 1961 with a modern and flexible scheme for regulating builders, painters and building surveyors; • introduce a new and improved dispute handling process with the Building Commission dealing with complaints at the front end and the State Administrative Tribunal dealing with intractable disputes, thereby abolishing the Building Disputes Tribunal; • provide for a new owner-builder approval process with improved controls; • create the position of Building Commissioner as a statutory office holder within the Department of Commerce, with improved compliance powers; and • replace the Builders’ Registration Board and the Painters’ Registration Board with a Building Services Board The Government intends to introduce the reforms into Parliament in the second half of this year. The new laws are expected to commence some time in the first half of 2011. The Building Commission is located at Level 1 31 Troode Street West Perth Western Australia – Telephone 1300 489 099, email info@buildingcommission. wa.gov.au and website www. buildingcommission.wa.gov.au 10 • Australian Building Regulation Bulletin
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