Section 4 - Plumbing and Drainage Act 2011 - Plumbing and drainage work—meaning

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4 Plumbing and drainage work—meaning

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The plumbing and drainage work to which this Act applies is commonly referred to as on-site plumbing and drainage work.

(1) In this Act, plumbing and drainage work means—

(a) the construction of, or work on, a plumbing installation that connects, directly or indirectly, with a network utility operator’s water supply system, downstream from the point of connection to a network utility operator’s water supply system, or

(b) the construction of, or work on, a plumbing installation that connects, directly or indirectly, with any other water supply system, if the construction or work is residential building work within the meaning of the Home Building Act 1989, or

(c) the construction of, or work on, a sanitary plumbing system, or

(d) the construction of, or work on, a sanitary drainage system upstream from its point of connection to—

(i) a system for the disposal of sewerage, or

(ii) a system for the re-use of sewerage or other wastewater, or

(iii) an on-site wastewater management or treatment system, or

(iv) a network utility operator’s sewerage system, or

(e) any other type of construction or work declared by the regulations to be plumbing and drainage work.

(2) A plumbing installation means an installation that conveys, or controls the conveyance of, water but does not include anything connected to, extending or situated beyond the outlet from a fixture, fitting or pressurised line.

(3) A sanitary plumbing system means an assembly of pipes, fittings, fixtures and appliances used to collect and convey sewage to a sanitary drainage system.

(4) A sanitary drainage system means an assembly of pipes, fittings and apparatus (usually located below ground level) used to collect and convey the discharge from a sanitary plumbing system, together with discharge from fixtures directly connected to a drain, to a sewer.

(5) Subject to the regulations, plumbing and drainage work does not include any of the following work—