Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulationsr. 6
(1) If a provision of any document applied, adopted or incorporated by, or referred to in, these Regulations is inconsistent with any provision in these Regulations, the provision of these Regulations prevails.
(2) Subject to the Act and to these Regulations, words and expressions used in these Regulations have the same meaning as they have in the PCA.
(3) A reference to plumbing work in these Regulations, except in Part 12, includes a reference to specialised plumbing work unless a contrary intention expressly appears or the context otherwise requires.
(4) Any reference in a document incorporated by these Regulations to a requirement to comply with a direction, instruction, specification or requirement of a manufacturer when carrying out plumbing work is to be read as if the reference were to a requirement to comply with relevant best practice when carrying out that plumbing work.
(5) In these Regulations—
(a) a reference to the installation, replacement, repair or alteration of a thing; or
(b) a reference to any one or more of the activities referred to in paragraph (a) in relation to a thing—
includes the extension, renewal, relocation, connection, disconnection or removal of the thing.
(6) In these Regulations a reference to the commissioning of a thing, unless a contrary intention expressly appears or the context otherwise requires, includes the recommissioning or decommissioning of the thing.
(7) In these Regulations a reference to the construction, installation, replacement, repair, alteration, maintenance, testing or commissioning of a thing includes any work that is incidental to, or associated with—
(a) the construction, installation, replacement, repair, alteration, maintenance, testing or commissioning of that thing; or
(b) any extended meaning of an activity described in paragraph (a) referred to in subregulation (5) or (6) in relation to that thing.