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Group

731 Building Cleaning, Pest Control and Gardening Services

Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC)
Reference period
2006 (Revision 2.0)

This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:

Class

7311 Building and Other Industrial Cleaning Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in the interior cleaning of buildings or transportation equipment, and the exterior cleaning of buildings (except steam, sand and other abrasive blasting). Also included are units mainly engaged in providing other industrial cleaning services such as street cleaning or road sweeping.

Primary activities

  • Bathroom/toilet cleaning
  • Building exterior cleaning (except sand blasting or steam cleaning)
  • Building interior cleaning
  • Chimney cleaning
  • Duct cleaning
  • Gutter cleaning
  • Janitorial service (including transport equipment)
  • Residential building cleaning
  • Road sweeping
  • Street cleaning
  • Swimming pool cleaning
  • Transport equipment cleaning
  • Window cleaning

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in

  • sand blasting or steam cleaning of building exteriors are included in Class 3299 Other Construction Services n.e.c.; and
  • providing laundry and dry-cleaning services are included in Class 9531 Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Services.
Class

7312 Building Pest Control Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in providing commercial and domestic pest control services. Such services include exterminating and controlling mosquitoes, birds, rodents, termites and other insects and pests (except agricultural or forestry pest control services). Also included in this class are units providing fumigation and weed control services (except agricultural and forestry).

Primary activities

  • Exterminating service (except agricultural and forestry)
  • Fumigating service (except crop fumigating)
  • Insect control service (except agricultural and forestry)
  • Pest control service (except agricultural and forestry)
  • Termite control service (except agricultural and forestry)
  • Weed control service (except agricultural and forestry)

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in providing agricultural or forestry pest control services are included in the appropriate classes of Subdivision 05 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Support Services.

Class

7313 Gardening Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in providing gardening services only.

Primary activities

  • Garden maintenance service
  • Gardening service
  • Lawn care service(e.g. fertilising, seeding, spraying)
  • Lawn mowing service
  • Maintenance of plants and shrubs in buildings

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in

  • installing artificial turf or in constructing (i.e. installing) walkways, retaining walls, decks, fences, ponds or similar structures are included in Class 3291 Landscape Construction Services;
  • weed eradication services are included in either Class 7312 Building Pest Control Services or in the appropriate classes of Subdivision 05 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Support Services; and
  • owning and leasing pot plants are included in Class 6639 Other Goods and Equipment Rental and Hiring n.e.c.