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Qualifications for registration as adjudicators or review adjudicators (s. 102(1)(a) and (2)(b))

In force

(1)

The qualifications required for registration as an adjudicator or a review adjudicator are —

(a)

a degree from a university or other tertiary institution in Australia, or an equivalent qualification from a university or other tertiary institution in another country, in 1 or more of the following subjects —

(i)

architecture;

(ii)

engineering;

(iii)

quantity surveying;

(iv)

building and construction;

(v)

construction management;

(vi)

project management;

(vii)

built environments;

(viii)

law;

and

(b)

the completion of a course approved by the Building Commissioner for registration as an adjudicator or a review adjudicator (as the case requires).

(2)

The following are taken to have the qualification required by subregulation (1)(a) —

(a)

a lawyer;

(b)

an individual who is provisionally registered as an adjudicator under section 110.

(3)

The Building Commissioner may, for the purposes of subregulation (1)(b), approve a course for registration as an adjudicator or a course for registration as a review adjudicator if satisfied the matters covered by the course include the following —

(a)

the role and functions of an adjudicator or a review adjudicator (as the case requires);

(b)

a study of the Act;

(c)

the practical aspects of adjudication;

(d)

ethics, procedural fairness and good faith in connection with adjudication;

(e)

the obligations under the code of practice for adjudicators or review adjudicators;

(f)

decision making and decision writing;

(g)

legal concepts in connection with adjudication;

(h)

course assessment or examination.

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