[The following message is transcribed from a 23/20/24 email from Steph Hailliday, Acting Commissioner, Consumer & Business Services, Government of South Australia]

South Australian businesses from the building and construction industry are being invited to have your say in the SA Government’s review of the sector, which will focus on opportunities to enhance industry compliance, protect and inform consumers, and support the building sector to deliver high-quality building work.
Consultation is now open for you to share your views about reforms that the Government is proposing. These include: 

• new registration requirements and increased oversight for building inspectors, owner builders and developers
• improvements to dispute resolution processes for consumers and building industry workers
• continuous professional development for building industry workers
• new enforcement tools and increased penalties to address poor practices within industry
• changes to building work contract requirements, including new rules for the use of sunset clauses in off-the-plan sales.

Further details on the review items are included in a discussion paper that is available on the YourSAy website.

You can share your feedback by:

• completing the short survey for building industry workers on the yourSAy webpage
• sending an email to [email protected].

As a licence or registration holder, we also invite you to complete this short survey seeking your views on a proposal to introduce Continuous Professional Development requirements for workers in the building industry.

The Government welcomes your feedback by 17 January 2025.