Plumbing Regulations 2018

If a provision of any document applied, adopted or incorporated by, or referred to in, these Regulations is inconsistent with any provision of these Regulations, the provision of these Regulations prevails.

Subject to the Act and to these Regulations, words and expressions used but not defined in these Regulations have the same meaning as they have in the PCA.

A reference to plumbing work in these Regulations, except in Part 6, includes a reference to specialised plumbing work unless a contrary intention expressly appears or the context otherwise requires.

In these Regulations, a reference to the installation, replacement, repair or alteration of or in relation to a thing, unless a contrary intention expressly appears or the context otherwise requires, includes—

the extension, renewal, relocation, connection, disconnection or removal of the thing; and

any work that is incidental to, or associated with, an activity described in this subregulation.

In these Regulations, a reference to the commissioning of a thing, unless a contrary intention expressly appears or the context otherwise requires, includes—

the recommissioning or decommissioning of the thing; and

any work that is incidental to, or associated with, an activity described in this subregulation.

In these Regulations, a reference to the construction, maintenance or testing of a thing includes any work that is incidental to, or associated with, the construction, maintenance or testing of the thing.

Words and expressions used in Divisions 3 and 9 of Part 4 and Divisions 3, 4 and 5 of Part 5 but not defined in these Regulations or the PCA have the same meaning as they have in the following standards—

AS 3814;

AS 4575;

AS/NZS 5601.1;

AS/NZS 5601.2.