New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsAn individual who does residential building work is exempt from the requirements of sections 12 (Unlicensed work) and 13 (Unqualified residential building work) of the Act if the individual owns the dwelling in connection with which the work is done, the work does not include specialist work and the work does not need to be authorised by an owner-builder permit because:
(a) it does not require development consent, or
(b) the reasonable market cost of the labour and materials involved in the work does not exceed the amount prescribed for the purposes of the definition of "owner-builder work" in section 29 of the Act.