Under the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020, registered design practitioners are required to provide design compliance declarations when they provide a person with a regulated design prepared by the practitioner and the design is in a form suitable for use by that person or another person in connection with building work.

Regulated designs are designs prepared for a building element or a performance solution for building work.

Please refer to the Design Practitioners Handbook for more information on how to determine whether a design is a regulated design, including information on building elements and building work.

A design compliance declaration is a declaration regarding a number of matters. One of those is, under clause 9(1)(c) of the Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2021, whether the design accords with relevant elements of this Regulated Design Guidance Material.

Persons preparing regulated designs must therefore ensure that the designs accord with relevant elements of this Regulated Design Guidance Material.