Occupational Licensing Act 2005

A person is eligible to hold an owner builder permit if the person – meets the prescribed criteria; and is, or will be, covered by the insurance required under section 29F(1) at the time the permit is issued; and has successfully completed an owner builder training course, approved under subsection (3), within the 12-month period immediately before he or she is the subject of an application for an owner builder permit; and has engaged a building surveyor in respect of the work to be performed as an owner builder as required under the Building Act 2016.

Subsection (1)(c) does not apply to a person if – he or she intends to manage or carry out building work as an owner builder in respect of premises; and an owner of those premises is also an owner builder in relation to those premises and has complied with subsection (1)(c).

The Administrator may, by notice in the Gazette, approve a specific training course, or a training course provided by a person or body specified in the notice, as an owner builder training course for the purposes of subsection (1)(c).

A notice under subsection (3) is not a statutory rule for the purposes of the Rules Publication Act 1953.