Practice Notes
Practice Notes (numerical order) |
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| Swimming pool and spa safety barriers |
 PN 2011-05 (3.15MB) |
| Access to buildings for people with a disability |
PN 2011-14 (427KB) |
| Lapsed building permits |
PN 2011-35 (381KB) |
| Building Appeals Board guide to applications for modification and compliance assessments |
PN 2011-39 (441KB) |
| Building Controls for Bushfire Safety | Under Review |
| Residential sustainability measures |
PN 2011-55 (643KB) |
| Water Saving Options available when testing fire safety systems |
PN 2007-61 (513KB) |
| Assessing Class 1 buildings with timber floor |
PN 2007-60 (200KB) |
| Sprinkler Systems - alternative solutions and role of chief officer |
PN 2007-59 (91KB) |
| Protection of Public |
PN 2007-58 (1.24MB) |
| Report and Consent |
PN 2007-57 (1.67MB) |
| Owner-builder Certificate of Consent |
PN 2006-56 (453KB) |
| Building permits and community infrastructure levies |
PN 2006-54 (446KB) |
| Dwelling statistics |
PN 2006-53 (304KB) |
| Building permit levy - payment by third party cheque |
PN 2006-52 (299KB) |
| Building permit levy - liability to pay and refunds |
PN 2006-50 (297KB) |
| Building permit levy - calculation rounding policy |
PN 2006-49 (297KB) |
| Building permit levy - requirement to forward to the Building Commission |
PN 2006-48 (297KB) |
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Part 4 of the building regulations |
PN 2006-47 (2.73MB) |
| Bushfire safety - suitability of timber |
PN 2006-46 (411KB) |
| Legionella initiative - risk management |
PN 2006-45 (486KB) |
| Building permit and planning permit consistency |
PN 2006-44 (1.14MB) |
| Demolition of buildings |
PN 2006-43 (1.14MB) |
| Plumbing Compliance certificates and issue of occupancy permits |
PN 2006-41 (411KB) |
| Fire alarm monitoring systems |
PN 2006-40 (411KB) |
| Fire hydrants: system design, installation, commissioning and testing |
PN 2006-38 (516KB) |
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Fire performance requirements of the BCA |
PN 2006-37 (237KB) |
| Building permit for a stage of Building Work |
PN 2006-36 (392KB) |
| Issuing building permits prior to registration of plans of subdivision |
PN 2006-33 (238KB) |
| When is a building permit required? |
PN 2008-32 (648KB) |
| Deleting hose from existing fire hydrants |
PN 2006-31 (346KB) |
| Classification of certain residential care buildings |
PN 2006-30 (252KB) |
| Using the BCA | Under review |
| Building work involving multiple permits |
PN 2006-28 (394KB) |
| Self-contained smoke alarms |
PN 2006-27 (516KB) |
| Notices and orders |
Updated PN 2006-25 (1.81MB) |
| Occupancy permits |
PN 2006-24 (393KB) |
| Maintenance of essential safety measures |
PN 2007-23 (1.53MB) |
| Amendment of building permits |
PN 2006-21 (233KB) |
| Protection work process |
PN 2006-20 (1.59MB) |
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Notifying councils of building work |
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| Responses from municipal councils |
PN 2006-18 (253KB) |
| Installation of fire safety systems in residential buildings |
Updated PN 2008-13 (3.01MB) |
| Applying BCA energy efficiency measures to existing Class 2-9 buildings |
PN 2007-12 (505KB) |
| 'Building' defined |
PN 2006-11 (253KB) |
| Fees and deposits |
Updated PN 2006-10 (328KB) |
| Building energy analysis for commercial buildings |
PN 2007-09 (200KB) |
| Emergency communications systems |
PN 2006-8 (266KB) |
| Residential fire safety systems |
PN 2006-7 (590KB) |
| Building above certain public facilities |
PN 2006-06 (238KB) |
| Stormwater drainage |
PN 2006-4 (253KB) |
| Certificates of compliance |
PN 2006-3 (345KB) |
| Building envelopes and Part 4 of the Building Regulations 2006 |
PN 2006-2 (580KB) |
| Multi-storey residential buildings - warranty insurance exemption |
PN 2006-1 (813KB) |
