Guidance on Professional Engineering Work
NSW Government
The Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 and Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2021 (the DBP legislation) were established to raise the standards of building design and building work. The DBP legislation establishes a registration scheme for Professional Engineers carrying out professional engineering work in NSW.
This document will assist engineers in identifying whether they need to be registered for the work that they do by providing information on:
• who needs to be registered (see section 3 of this document),
• the meaning of professional engineering work (see section 4 of this document),
• what are the areas of engineering (see section 5 of this document),
• the meaning of direct supervision (see section 6 of this document), and
• what is authorised by the Regulation (see section 7 of this document).
Contents:
1: Glossary Of Terms
2: Introduction
3: Who Needs To Be Registered?
3.1: What The DBP Registration Requires
3.2: Relationship To Other Registration Schemes?
4: What Is Professional Engineering Work?
5: What Are The Areas Of Engineering?
6: What Is Direct Supervision?
6.1: Checklist - Direct Supervision
7: What Is Authorised By The Regulations?
