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For more information about when you need a licence see Apply for a licence and When is a contractor licence required.
PI* – Denotes the requirement to hold Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance. Note: for fire licences, this is only required when the licence class includes certification.
Builders
Builder Restricted
Trade Contractor
- Air Handling Duct Installation
- Brick and Segmental Paving
- Bricklaying and Blocklaying
- Cabinet Making
- Concreting
- Carpentry
- Drainage
- Drainage – On-site Sewage
- Floor Finishing and Covering (Hard Sector)
- Foundation Work (Piling and Anchors)
- Gasfitting
- Glass, Glazing and Aluminium
- Irrigation
- Joinery
- Metal Fascias and Gutters
- Non-Structural Metal Fabrication and Installation
- Painting and Decorating
- Plastering Drywall
- Plastering Solid
- Plumbing and Drainage
- Roof and Wall Cladding
- Roof Tiling
- Site Classifier PI*
- Sheds, Carports and Garages
- Shopfitting (Trade)
- Steel Fixing
- Stonemasonry
- Structural Landscaping (Trade)
- Structural Metal Fabrication and Erection
- Swimming Pool Construction, Installation and Maintenance
- Termite Management – Chemical PI*
- Termite Management – Physical
- Wall and Floor Tiling
- Waterproofing
Mechanical Services
- Mechanical Services - Plumbing licence
- Mechanical Services - Plumbing licence occupational
- Mechanical Services - Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration (Unlimited Design) licence
- Mechanical Services - Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration (Limited Design) licence
- Mechanical Services - Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration occupational licence
- Mechanical Services - Medical Gas licence
- Mechanical Services - Medical Gas occupational licence
Occupational plumbing and draining licences
Please see Apply for a Plumbing and Drainage licence
Fire protection licences
New fire protection licences (from 1 May 2021)
From 1 May 2021 the new fire protection licensing framework introduces five new licence streams – please refer to the individual licence stream pages below for specific information on licence classes:
- passive stream
- special hazard fire systems stream
- water-based fire system stream
- portables stream
- electrical stream.
While the fire safety professional licence class will continue, the scope of work has changed, details can be found here.
Click here to view former fire protection licence classes, including continuing classes.