Domestic building work
This is the meaning of domestic building work as defined in Schedule 1B of the Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991.
- Each of the following is domestic building work—
- (a) the erection or construction of a detached dwelling;
- (b) the renovation, alteration, extension, improvement or repair of a home;
- (c) removal or resiting work for a detached dwelling;
- (d) the installation of a kit home at a building site.
- However—
- (a) removal work for a detached dwelling is domestic building work only if the dwelling is intended to be resited at another place and used, at the place, as a residence; and
- (b) resiting work for a detached dwelling is domestic building work only if the dwelling is intended to be used at the place at which it is being resited as a residence.
- Domestic building work includes—
- (a) work (associated work) associated with the erection, construction, removal or resiting of a detached dwelling; and
- (b) work (associated work) associated with the renovation, alteration, extension, improvement or repair of a home.
- Without limiting subsection (3), associated work includes—
- (a) landscaping; and
- (b) paving; and
- (c) the erection or construction of a building or fixture associated with the detached dwelling or home. Examples of buildings and fixtures—retaining structures, driveways, fencing, garages, carports, workshops, swimming pools and spas
- For the erection or construction of a detached dwelling, domestic building work includes the provision of services or facilities to the dwelling or the property on which the dwelling is, or is to be, situated.
- For the renovation, alteration, extension, improvement or repair of a home, domestic building work includes the provision of services or facilities to the home or the property on which the home is situated. Examples of services and facilities for subsections (5) and (6)— lighting, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, water supply, sewerage and drainage
- Also, domestic building work includes—
- (a) site work relating to work mentioned in subsection (1), (3), (5) or (6); and
- (b) work declared under a regulation to be domestic building work if there are reasonable grounds for considering the work to be domestic building work.
- However, domestic building work does not include excluded building work.
- In this section—
- (a) a reference to a detached dwelling includes a reference to any part of a detached dwelling; and
- (b) a reference to a home includes a reference to any part of a home; and
- (c) a reference to site work includes a reference to work required to be carried out to gain access, or to remove impediments to access, to a site.
- In this section—
kit home means a set of building components offered for sale on the basis that the components are sufficient for the construction of 1 of the following if constructed in compliance with a plan or instruction provided by the seller—- (a) a detached dwelling;
- (b) a garage;
- (c) a carport;
- (d) another structure prescribed by regulation.
resiting work, for a detached dwelling, means work relating to the dwelling carried out at a place for resiting the dwelling at the place following its removal from another place.