Building Legislation Amendment (Fairer Payments on Jobsites and Other Matters) Bill 2025
Introduction and first reading
Mary-Anne THOMAS (Macedon – Leader of the House, Minister for Health, Minister for Ambulance Services) (09:37): I move:
That I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002, the Building Act 1993, the Environment Effects Act 1978, the Heritage Act 2017 and the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and for other purposes.
Motion agreed to.
Richard RIORDAN (Polwarth) (09:38): I ask for further explanation of the bill.
Mary-Anne THOMAS (Macedon – Leader of the House, Minister for Health, Minister for Ambulance Services) (09:38): The purpose of this bill is to deliver a series of critical building and construction industry related amendments to the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 and the Building Act 1993. Amendments will implement many of the government’s approvals of the recommendations of the parliamentary inquiry into employers and contractors who refuse to pay their subcontractors for completed works. The bill will also introduce registration reforms for building surveyors and building inspectors to lift practitioner performance and boost workforce supply. Finally, the bill makes clarifying changes to the Environment Effects Act 1978, the Heritage Act 2017 and the Planning and Environment Act 1987.
Read first time.
Ordered to be read second time tomorrow.