WA Online Licence Search is the state register operated by the Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety. It records holders of occupational licences, registrations, permits, certificates and accreditations issued under Western Australian law by three divisions of the department. Search fields: A licence type must be selected first; the form then exposes, per type, company/business or family name, first name, location or post code, a search-all-WA option, date of birth (for individual credentials such as High Risk Work Licence and Construction Induction Training Card), and charity category for the Charity type. The application also carries a licence-number lookup path. Records returned include the licensee or entity name, licence number, licence type and sub-type (individual, body corporate/company, partnership), licence status, expiry date, entity type, trading names where held, and a business locality.
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Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety Government agency
Registry types
Professional licence registerContractor accreditation register
Jurisdiction
Western Australia AU-WA
Scope
Subnational
Public access
Open The search opens and returns results without any account, login or payment. Selecting a licence type and entering a name returns full licence records — licensee or entity name, licence number, licence type and sub-type, status, expiry date and locality.
WA Online Licence Search can be searched free of charge and without an account, directly from the Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety.
For construction and workplace-safety due diligence it also confirms high risk work, asbestos removal and demolition authorisations.
Covers 35 distinct licence types spanning three separate regulators in one department — Building and Energy, Consumer Protection and WorkSafe — so it is a department-wide occupational licensing search, not a building-industry tool.
ASIC registers companies, business names, financial advisers and banned persons under federal law. This register records Western Australian occupational authorisations that ASIC does not hold at all: electrical contractors and workers, gasfitting permits, plumbing contractors, tradesperson plumbers and restricted plumbing permits, building and painting contractors and practitioners, building surveying contractors and practitioners, motor vehicle dealers, salespersons, repairers, repair businesses and yard managers, real estate and settlement agents, land valuers, debt collectors, employment agents, charitable collections licences, and WorkSafe high risk work licences and assessor accreditations, asbestos assessor and Class A/B asbestos removal licences, demolition licences and construction induction training cards.
Limitations
It does not establish corporate existence, legal personality or entity identifiers.
Contact details are withheld by law — the department's own form states "email and telephone details cannot be released under the relevant legislation."
Downloadable bulk registers exist only for builders, building surveyors, painters and building engineers; the other 31 licence types are query-only.
The free tier returns index data; extracts, certificates and lodged documents are a separate paid product.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Confirming a Western Australia registration or licence that federal records do not carry
Establishing status before deciding whether a paid extract is worth ordering
Not recommended for
Confirming company registration, which in Australia is federal and sits with ASIC
Treating an entry as evidence of solvency, competence or general trustworthiness
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Unknown
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Unknown
Local businesses
Unknown
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Yes
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
Entities registered or licensed in Western Australia
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
9 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
7 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
9 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
7 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
7 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
9 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
6 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
8 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
7 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.