Certifiers, council and building disputes in Austral NSW
Austral sits in the City of Liverpool. Your construction certificate and the mandatory inspections that go with it come from a principal certifier, and it is worth being blunt about what those are for: they allow the certificates to issue. They are not carried out for you and they do not produce a defect list. Your actual protection is elsewhere, in the statutory warranties under the Home Building Act 1989, six years for major defects and two for the rest, and in the Home Building Compensation Fund through icare where a builder cannot finish. Disputes go to NSW Fair Trading first, then to NCAT.
Fully licensed & accredited
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NSW Fair Trading -
Australian Society of Building Consultants -
Strata Community Association -
Building Dispute Practitioners Society
The City of Liverpool is the consent authority for Austral.
On an Austral build the construction certificate and, at the end, the occupation certificate both come from a principal certifier.
A certifier attends to sign off critical stages for those certificates, which is a different job from checking workmanship for you.
Under s 18E the warranty period is six years for a major defect and two years for any other defect.
NSW Fair Trading handles complaints before NCAT's Consumer and Commercial Division.
More about Austral
- Building a new home in Austral NSW
- Buying a home in Austral NSW
- Growth and development in Austral NSW
- Ground conditions and slabs in Austral NSW
- Weep holes and ground clearance in Austral NSW
- Common building defects in Austral NSW
- Wet area waterproofing in Austral NSW
Written by our local inspection team from work carried out in Austral. Licensed building practitioners.
