Western Australia

Building

Contractor Licence

Licence Overview

Perform the building work:

  • Building construction, erection, assembly, or placement.
  • Renovation, alteration, extension,
  • improvement, or repair of a building.
  • Assembly, reassembly, or securing of a relocated building.
  • Alteration of ground levels on land that could impact neighbouring properties during tasks mentioned in the first three points.
  • Site work on land related to the activities in the first four points.

Notes:

For individuals, partnerships and companies that intend to trade as builders.

Allows a business to provide services as a builder for work that requires a building permit, has a value of at least $20,000

Technical Qualifications

Building contractors must have a ‘nominated supervisor’, who is a registered building practitioner. See practitioner requirements above.

Are you and your business at risk for unlicensed activity?

Australia’s building regulators are intensifying their crackdown on unlicensed and improperly licensed work. Across all states, hundreds of penalties are issued each year, with fines often reaching into the multi-million-dollar range and businesses being forced to shut down.

In Queensland, hundreds of fines have been issued for unlicensed contracting. In NSW, 2024 prosecutions alone resulted in hundreds of penalties, and in Victoria, recent years have seen multi-million-dollar fines issued. Enforcement is ramping up, with large-scale audit blitzes, stop-work orders, and mandatory rectifications becoming increasingly common.

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