Australian Standards

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Standards Australia, formerly the Standards Association of Australia, has for some time published technical standards relating to plumbing and drainage matters. In the late 1980s, several existing plumbing standards were consolidated and a set of updated Australian Standards was published in 1990 with the objective to provide: ‘acceptable technical standards for the design and installation of plumbing systems throughout Australia’. This was the AS 3500 series. Although designed as a national code, its adoption over the years following was piecemeal and it was heavily varied.