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Home>Building & Planning>Building>Owner Builders
| In June 2005 new regulations were introduced to clarify the specific role of owner-builders (Owner Builder Kits and Applications are available from Council).
The regulations now define an Owner Builder. Generally an owner-builder is defined as a person who constructs or renovates a domestic building on his or her own land, who is not in the business of building. Owner Builders will not be able to construct units.
These reforms require owner-builders to:
• Obtain one building permit for one house in any three year period, with no limits to additional permits to that same home;
• To be aware of on their legal obligations and responsibilities;
• Obtain a Certificate of Consent from the Building Practitioners Board to apply for a building permit to carry out domestic building works valued at more than $12,000
Certificate of Consent
Owner Builders must obtain a Certificate of Consent from the Building Practitioners Board in order to obtain a building permit to carry out domestic building work valued over $12,000.
To obtain a Certificate of Consent owner-builders must declare they:
• Are building or renovating only one dwelling;
• Have not had a permit to undertake work as an owner-builder within the past three years;
• Understood the obligations and responsibilities associated with undertaking domestic building work as an owner-builder.
The Building Permit cannot be issued until the Certificate of Consent has been lodged with the Relevant Building Surveyor
Selling the Property
If you sell your owner-built home within six and a half years after the domestic building work has been completed (Final Certificate issued), you must comply with the following additional requirements under the Building Act:
• Ensure that the contract of sale sets out the compulsory statutory warranties that you are required to give the homebuyer
• Obtain a defects report on the building work prepared by a prescribed building practitioner
• Obtain owner-builder domestic building insurance covering the domestic building work (if within six years of completion).
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