Accommodation registration

Prescribed accommodation, including Bed & Breakfasts, residential accommodation, hotels, motels, and hostels where five or more residents are capable of being catered for must be registered with Indigo Shire Council under the Public Health & Wellbeing Act 2008. Specific requirements relating to the prescribed accommodation premises are the Health (Prescribed Accommodation) Regulations 2001.

Inspections by Councils' Environmental Health Officers aim to address issues relating to:

• overcrowding
• maintenance and Cleanliness
• number of fixtures (such as showers, toilets, handwash basins etc) per person accommodated
• water supply
• refuse collection and disposal.

Links

To download instructions for submitting plans for approval of an accomodation premises, click here

To download a registration form to register your accomodation premises, click here

To download an application to transfer a registration of an accomodation premises, click here