You must have a licence before you can do any residential building work in NSW, including kitchen, bathroom and laundry renovation, that is valued at more than $5,000 in labour and materials (including GST). Kitchen, bathroom and laundry renovation is work involved in the installation, refurbishment, restoration and on-site repairs of or to a kitchen, bathroom or laundry. It doesn’t include work affecting any internal or external load bearing part of the building that is essential to the stability of the building or any part of it, including things such as foundations, floors, walls, roof, columns and beams.
A Qualified Supervisor Certificate
You can apply to have a qualified supervisor certificate issued for 1, 3 or 5 years.
To get a licence or certificate to do kitchen, bathroom and laundry renovation work, you must hold one of the qualifications from Group A, and one from Group B listed below.
Group A Qualifications
You must hold a contractor licence or qualified supervisor certificate in the category of:
Group B Qualifications
You must also hold one of the following seven Group B qualifications:
Or
2. Complete the following superseded units of competency:
Please feel free to reach out to our team for additional information regarding the other available units of competency within Group B that are not displayed above. Previously completed qualifications are subject to review to ensure compliance with the minimum required units.
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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