Licence data sources
Australian licence data sources and coverage
WorkClear tracks official Australian licence registers by source family, sector, and customer-safe verification status. Use this page to see what is live today and how new coverage such as SA Builder/BLD, SA PGE, NSW DBP, real-estate, and security sources is represented publicly.
Recently expanded
Coverage that changed the search surface
New sources are added only when their product boundary is clear. Source families let WorkClear explain coverage without overstating national availability or mixing unrelated licence sectors.
SA Builder/BLD
Active South Australian CBS builder and building-work contractor records are now part of WorkClear contractor coverage.
OpenSA PGE
South Australian plumbing, gas fitting, and electrical contractor records remain separate from broader SA categories.
OpenNSW DBP
NSW Design and Building Practitioners are category-gated for API verification so they do not pollute ordinary NSW contractor searches.
OpenRegulated sectors
Real-estate and security checks are treated as their own source families, with state-specific pages for live registers.
Opencontractor
Building and trade sources
Contractor, building, trade, electrical, plumbing, gas fitting, design, practitioner, and related work licence registers.
Construction Occupations
ACT construction occupation coverage is live from Access Canberra public register data.
Design & Building Practitioners
New South Wales Design and Building Practitioners exact API verification is live through an explicit DBP/designer category.
Pass state=NSW, sector=contractor, and category=designer or category=nsw_dbp for NSW DBP exact API checks.
Owner Builder Permits
New South Wales Owner Builder Permit exact API verification is live through an explicit owner_builder category.
Pass state=NSW, sector=contractor, and category=owner_builder for NSW Owner Builder Permit exact API checks.
Trades & Construction
New South Wales contractor checks are live in WorkClear.
WorkClear shows NSW contractor records that are included in current public verification coverage.
Licensing
Northern Territory electrical, plumbing, and building checks are live in WorkClear.
QBCC / contractor
Queensland contractor coverage is live from the QBCC licensed contractor register.
Builders
South Australia active Builder/BLD contractor checks are live from Consumer and Business Services SA.
South Australia public contractor coverage currently covers active CBS PGE and active CBS Builder/BLD records.
PGE
South Australia plumbing, gas fitting, and electrical contractor checks are live from Consumer and Business Services SA.
This SA-PGE source-family row covers active CBS PGE records. Active Builder/BLD records are covered separately by SA-BLD.
CBOS
Tasmanian CBOS coverage is live from the public register.
Tasmanian checks depend on the availability of the official public register.
Building
Victorian building practitioner checks are live from the official register.
Electrical
Victorian electrical coverage is live across licensed workers, registered contractors, and licensed inspectors.
Plumbing
Victorian plumbing coverage is live from the VBA public register.
Trades & Building
Western Australian trades and building checks are live in WorkClear.
Electrical Appian
Queensland electrical licence checks are not supported in public WorkClear verification.
Queensland electrical licence checks are intentionally excluded from public search and API results.
real estate
Real-estate sources
Property-sector licence registers are kept separate from building and trade checks so agent and agency records can expand on their own cadence.
Real Estate
Australian Capital Territory real-estate licence checks are live from Access Canberra public register data.
ACT real-estate checks are scoped to real-estate agent and real-estate salesperson authorisations from the Access Canberra public register feeds.
Real Estate
New South Wales real-estate licence coverage is live as a distinct sector from the NSW Fair Trading Property Register.
NSW real-estate checks are shown separately from NSW building and trade checks.
Real Estate
Northern Territory real-estate licence checks are live for current Property Agent records.
NT real-estate checks cover current Property Agent records; inactive historical rows are not promoted yet.
Real Estate
Queensland real-estate licence coverage is live from the Office of Fair Trading register.
Real Estate
Tasmanian real-estate licence checks are live from the Property Agents Board register PDFs.
The official TAS real-estate PDFs do not publish visible licence numbers; WorkClear uses stable generated IDs and holder-name search.
Real Estate
Victorian real-estate licence checks are live from the Consumer Affairs Victoria Estate Agents Public Register.
VIC real-estate checks are shown separately from Victorian building, electrical, and plumbing checks.
Real Estate
Western Australian real-estate licence checks are live in WorkClear.
WA real-estate checks are shown separately from building and trade checks.
security
Security sources
Security employee and firm registers are treated as a separate regulated sector, starting with Queensland security coverage.
Security
Queensland security industry employee and firm licence checks are live from the Office of Fair Trading security register.
QLD security checks are shown separately from contractor and real-estate checks.
Separate sectors
Building and trade, real-estate, and security coverage use separate sector paths so customers do not confuse unlike licences.
Category-gated sources
Specialised sources such as NSW DBP can be available through explicit API categories without appearing as ordinary contractor records.
Ongoing expansion
New official registers move through source mapping, data quality checks, customer-safe status labels, and search/API routing before being marketed as live.
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