Part 1Preliminary

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Purposes

The purpose of this Act is to establish a scheme for the registration of professional engineers—

(a) to promote best practice in providing professional engineering services; and

(b) to ensure that professional engineering services are provided only by suitably qualified and experienced engineers; and

(c) to provide for the endorsement of registration authorising a registered professional engineer to be engaged in the building industry; and

(d) to provide appropriate protection to consumers of professional engineering services provided by registered professional engineers; and

(e) to make consequential amendments to other Acts.

2 Commencement

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into operation on a day or days to be proclaimed.

(2) If a provision of this Act has not come into operation by 1 July 2021, it comes into operation on that day.

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act—

assessment entity, for an assessment scheme that has been approved under Part 3, means the entity administering the scheme;

assessment scheme means a scheme approved under Part 3;

Building account has the same meaning as it has in the Building Act 1993;

Business Licensing Authority means the Business Licensing Authority established under the Business Licensing Authority Act 1998;

Director means the person who, for the time being, is employed as Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria under the Public Administration Act 2004;

endorsed building engineer means a registered professional engineer whose registration is endorsed under Part 2;

endorsement means an endorsement under Part 2 authorising a registered professional engineer to engage in the building industry;

identity card, in relation to an inspector, means the identification issued to the inspector under section 143 of the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012;

inspector means an inspector appointed under the Australian Consumer Law and Fair Trading Act 2012;