CPD Requirements

See Subdivisions 2 and 3 of the Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Regulation 2018.

The following is a summary of parts of those Subdivisions.

1. CPD REQUIREMENTS

An adjudicator under BIFA and most Security of Payment jurisdictions must accumulate 10 CPD points in each CPD year. To meet this obligation an adjudicator must complete CPD activities, including core CPD activities identified in this policy or another activity the Registrar considers to be equivalent.

2. CPD ACTIVITIES

At least 3 CPD points must be accumulated by completing core CPD activities in each of the following areas

(minimum of 1 CPD point in each area):

a)       Legal principles (e.g. principles of contract law, principles of construction law, construction contracts, construction projects, analysis of the BIF Act);

b)       Practice and procedure (e.g. natural justice, good decision making, decision writing, conducting adjudications, roles and functions of adjudicators); and

c)       Ethics (e.g. judicial ethics, impartiality, confidentiality, conflicts of interest).