Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Preliminary and key provisions - Key provisions - Each registered person and provisional licence holder to provide record of work in respect of prescribed sanitary plumbing or drainlaying

27A: Each registered person and provisional licence holder to provide record of work in respect of prescribed sanitary plumbing or drainlaying

You could also call this:

"Plumbers and drainlayers must give homeowners a record of their work."

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You are a registered person or have a provisional licence to do sanitary plumbing or drainlaying. You must give the owner of the house a record of the work you did after you finish. The record must be in a certain form and say what work you did. You have to give this record to the owner when you finish the work. This record does not make you liable for anything that might go wrong. It also does not make you responsible for anything that you would not already be responsible for. The rules about this record of work were updated by the Building and Construction (Small Stand-alone Dwellings) Amendment Act 2025. You need to follow these rules when you do sanitary plumbing or drainlaying work. This helps keep track of the work that is done.

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This page was last updated on 9 November 2025

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27: Work done under exemptions must be done in accordance with regulations, or

"Follow the rules when doing exempt work"

28: Classes of registration may be designated by Board, or

"The Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board decides what types of registration are available for plumbers."

Part 1Preliminary and key provisions
Key provisions: Each registered person and provisional licence holder to provide record of work in respect of prescribed sanitary plumbing or drainlaying

27AEach registered person and provisional licence holder to provide record of work in respect of prescribed sanitary plumbing or drainlaying

This section applies to each registered person and provisional licence holder who carries out or supervises prescribed sanitary plumbing or drainlaying.
The person must, on completion of the prescribed sanitary plumbing or drainlaying, provide the owner of the dwelling with a record of work, in the prescribed form (if any), stating what sanitary plumbing or drainlaying work the registered person or provisional licence holder carried out or supervised.
A record of work given under subsection (2) does not, of itself,—
create any liability in relation to any matter to which the record of work relates; or
give rise to any civil liability to the owner that would not otherwise exist if the registered person or provisional licence holder were not required to provide the record of work.

Notes

Section 27A: inserted, on 25 October 2025, by section 43 of the Building and Construction (Small Stand-alone Dwellings) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 59).