Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies, subject to sections 86B and 86C, for assessing the following work (the work)—
(a) regulated work other than regulated work mentioned in section 86A(1);
(b) on-site sewerage work.
(2) A request for compliance assessment of the work must be—
(a) in the approved form; and
(b) made to the local government; and
(c) accompanied by the fee fixed by resolution of the local government; and
(d) if the request is about regulated work in a part of the SEQ region that involves SEQ water work—accompanied by either of the following—
(i) a document or information to show the work has been approved by or for the relevant service provider;
Examples of a document for paragraph (d)(i)—
a development approval
a Water Supply Act connection approval
(ii) information to show the approval mentioned in subparagraph (i) accompanied the request for compliance assessment of the plan for the regulated work.
(3) A request to assess the work at a particular stage may be made by phone or electronically.
(4) However, a request for compliance assessment that is for, or that includes, a greywater use facility for testing purposes may be made only if a testing approval has been granted for the facility.
(5) The local government must assess the work at the stages prescribed under the Standard Plumbing and Drainage Regulation.
(6) However, if the work is on-site sewerage work, the local government may decide not to carry out the assessment if an approved person for the assessment gives it a notice (a notice of compliance) in the approved form verifying that the work complies with—
(a) the relevant compliance permit; and
(b) the Standard Plumbing and Drainage Regulation.
(7) After assessing the work or, if a notice of compliance is given, the giving of the notice, the local government may ask the person making the request to supply a plan of the assessed work.
(8) The request for compliance assessment must be decided within 3 business days—
(a) if the local government has not requested a plan of the assessed work—after assessing the completed work; or
(b) if the local government has requested a plan of the assessed work—after receiving the plan.
(9) The local government must in deciding the request—
(a) give the person making the request a compliance certificate; or
(b) refuse to give a compliance certificate.
(9A) A local government can not give a compliance certificate for SEQ water work unless it is the relevant service provider for the work or 1 of the following applies—
(a) the work has been approved by the distributor-retailer who is the relevant service provider for the work;
Examples of an approval for paragraph (a)—
a development approval
a Water Supply Act connection approval
(b) the local government has been advised by the distributor-retailer in writing that a compliance certificate for the type of work may be given without the distributor-retailer's approval.
(9B) A distributor-retailer may give a participating local government a written advice for subsection (9A)(b) for stated types of connections, disconnections or changes to connections for the distributor-retailer's water infrastructure.
(10) If the local government gives a compliance certificate, the local government must also give a copy of the certificate to—
(a) the owner of the premises to which the certificate relates; and
(b) if the work involved the installation of water meters on premises—the water service provider for the premises, if the water service provider is not the local government.
(11) If the local government does not decide the request within the time stated in subsection (8), the request is taken to have been refused.
(12) If the local government refuses to give a compliance certificate, the local government must give the person who made the request an information notice about the decision.
Note—
For appeals against the decision, see the Sustainable Planning Act 2009, chapter 7, part 2, divisions 6, 8 and 9.
(13) In this section—
approved person, for assessment of on-site sewerage work, means the person who designed the on-site sewerage facility to which the work relates and who—
(a) in the local government's opinion, is competent to give a notice of compliance; and
(b) if the person is required by law to be registered or licensed under a law applying in the State to practise in the aspect of the work—is so registered or licensed.