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StandardsMate™ for Victoria.

Answers flag VIC rules and variations where they apply.

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Building and Plumbing Commission

What StandardsMate knows about Victoria.

Set Victoria as your state and answers put its rules first where we hold them. Here is who regulates what, and the certificate the work needs.

Regulator
Building + plumbing practitioner registration and licensing, including gasfitting
Compliance certificate
CoES (Certificate of Electrical Safety)
Required for all prescribed electrical installation work. Lodged via Energy Safe Victoria.

Licensing bodies

Recent + upcoming changes

  • The Building and Plumbing Commission became Victoria’s building and plumbing regulator on 1 July 2025.
  • Mandatory plumbing inspection for all under-slab drainage work (2024).

Key standards indexed

AS/NZS 3000:2018AS/NZS 3500Plumbing Regulations 2018NCC (as amended for VIC)AS 3740:2021OHS Regulations 2017

Common traps in Victoria

Rules that catch people out on Victoria jobs. Ask about any of them in the chat.

Under-slab plumbing now mandatory inspection
Missed the 2024 rule and the slab gets poured on non-compliant drainage. Ask what triggers an inspection before the pour is booked.
CoES lodgement through Energy Safe
Victorian electrical work uses CoES not CCEW. Different portal, different timeline. Answers name the form and the regulator it goes to.
Two regulators, two jobs
Energy Safe Victoria licenses electrical work. The Building and Plumbing Commission registers builders and plumbers, including gasfitters.
OHS, not WHS
Victoria runs its own OHS Act 2004 and OHS Regulations 2017, not the model WHS laws. WorkSafe Victoria is the regulator.

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