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Division

S Other Services

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

S Other Services

The Other Services Division includes a broad range of personal services; religious, civic, professional and other interest group services; selected repair and maintenance activities; and private households employing staff. Units in this division are mainly engaged in providing a range of personal care services, such as hair, beauty, diet and weight management services; providing death care services; promoting or administering religious events or activities; or promoting and defending the interests of their members.

Also included are units mainly engaged in repairing and/or maintaining equipment and machinery (except ships, boats, aircraft, or railway rolling stock) or other items (except buildings); as well as units of private households that engage in employing workers on or about the premises in activities primarily concerned with the operation of households.

The Other Services Division excludes units mainly engaged in providing buildings or dwellings repair and maintenance services (included in the Construction or Administrative and Support Services Divisions as appropriate), and units mainly engaged in providing repair and maintenance services of books, ships, boats, aircraft or railway rolling stock (included in the Manufacturing Division).

This division contains the following ANZSIC subdivisions:

Subdivision

94 Repair and Maintenance

This subdivision contains the following ANZSIC groups:

Group

941 Automotive Repair and Maintenance

This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:

Class

9411 Automotive Electrical Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in installing and repairing automotive electrical products in a range of automotive vehicles.

Primary activities

  • Air conditioner repair (automotive)
  • Auto-electrical garage operation
  • Automotive electrical product installation and/or repair
  • Car radio or CD-player installation and repair
  • Electrical repair (automotive)

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in providing general automotive repair and maintenance services such as the regular servicing of motor vehicles are included in Class 9419 Other Automotive Repair and Maintenance.

Class

9412 Automotive Body, Paint and Interior Repair

This class consists of units mainly engaged in repairing, panel beating and/or spray painting smashed or damaged automotive vehicles. Also included are units mainly engaged in replacing, repairing and/or tinting automotive vehicle glass, units repairing the interior/exterior of automotive vehicle as well as units providing car wash or cleaning services.

Primary activities

  • Automotive body repair
  • Automotive interior repair
  • Automotive reupholstery
  • Automotive rustproofing and undercoating
  • Automotive spray painting
  • Automotive trimming
  • Car detailing
  • Car wash or cleaning operation
  • Panel beating (motor body repairing)
  • Smash repair
  • Windscreen replacement and/or repair (including window tinting)

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • providing general automotive repair and maintenance services or undertaking automotive (mechanical) conversions (such as converting foreign cars from left to right hand drive) or restoration activities are included in Class 9419 Other Automotive Repair and Maintenance; and
  • providing towing services for smashed or damaged automotive vehicles are included in Class 4610 Road Freight Transport.
Class

9419 Other Automotive Repair and Maintenance

This class consists of units mainly engaged in providing a wide range of mechanical and repair and maintenance services for automotive vehicles. Included are units which specialise in the repair and maintenance of particular automotive components such as brakes, clutches, mufflers, transmissions, gearboxes and other parts. Also included are units providing automotive engine repair and replacement services (except factory replacement), and motorcycle repair and maintenance services.

Primary activities

  • Automotive conversion (including non-factory based engine reconditioning services and converting foreign cars from left to right-hand drive)
  • Automotive repair garage operation
  • Brake repair
  • Clutch repair
  • Cooling system and/or radiator repair (automotive)
  • Engine repair or reconditioning (automotive, except factory reconditioning)
  • Exhaust system or muffler repair (automotive)
  • Gearbox repair (automotive)
  • General automotive repair
  • Motorcycle or scooter repair
  • Muffler repair (automotive)
  • Trailer repair (boat or box)
  • Transmission repair (automotive)
  • Truck repair (automotive)

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • repairing automotive radios, CD-players and other audio equipment are included in Class 9411 Automotive Electrical Services;
  • manufacturing automotive vehicles and trailers or customising those vehicles on an assembly-line basis (including ambulances and fire trucks) are included in the appropriate classes of Subdivisions 23 Transport Equipment Manufacturing and 24 Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing; and
  • providing factory reconditioning services for motors (i.e. changeover motors) are included in Class 2319 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing.
Group

942 Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance

This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:

Class

9421 Domestic Appliance Repair and Maintenance

This class consists of units mainly engaged in repairing and maintaining electrical, electronic and gas domestic appliances.

Primary activities

  • Air conditioner repair and maintenance
  • Appliance domestic repair
  • Heater (domestic) repair
  • Microwave oven, domestic, repair
  • Radio and stereo repair and maintenance (except automotive)
  • Refrigerator, domestic, repair
  • Sewing machine (domestic) repair
  • Stove and/or oven (domestic) repair
  • Television repair and maintenance
  • VCR and DVD repair and maintenance
  • Washing machine and/or clothes dryer (domestic) repair

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • repairing and maintaining electronic and precision equipment such as radars, sonars and telescopes are included in Class 9422 Electronic (except Domestic Appliance) and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance;
  • installing central heating and air conditioning equipment are included in Class 3233 Air Conditioning and Heating Services; and
  • installing and repairing automotive (car) radio or CD-players are included in Class 9411 Automotive Electrical Services.
Class

9422 Electronic (except Domestic Appliance) and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance

This class consists of units mainly engaged in repairing and maintaining electronic equipment (except domestic appliances) such as computers and communications equipment, and/or highly specialised precision instruments.

Primary activities

  • Communication equipment, repair and maintenance
  • Computer and computer peripheral equipment repair and maintenance
  • Dental equipment repair and maintenance
  • Diagnostic imaging equipment repair and maintenance
  • Electrical measuring instrument repair and maintenance
  • Facsimile (fax) machine repair and maintenance
  • Laboratory instrument repair and maintenance
  • Measuring equipment repair and maintenance
  • Medical and surgical equipment repair and maintenance
  • Meteorological instrument repair and maintenance
  • Navigation instrument (including radar and sonar) repair and maintenance
  • Office machine repair and maintenance
  • Optical instrument (including microscopes and telescopes) repair and maintenance
  • Photocopying machine repair and maintenance
  • Photographic (including camera) equipment repair
  • Precision equipment calibration
  • Radar and sonar equipment repair and maintenance
  • Scales, professional or scientific, repair and maintenance
  • Surgical equipment repair and maintenance
  • Surveying equipment repair and maintenance
  • Telephone equipment repair and maintenance

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • repairing and maintaining electrical, electronic and gas domestic appliances are included in Class 9421 Domestic Appliance Repair and Maintenance; and
  • monitoring security systems are included in Class 7712 Investigation and Security Services.
Class

9429 Other Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance

This class consists of units mainly engaged in the repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified. Also included in this class are units which either sharpen/install blades and saws or provide welding repair services.

Primary activities

  • Agricultural or farm machinery and equipment repair and maintenance
  • Blade sharpening
  • Brushcutter repair and maintenance
  • Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance
  • Electric motor repair and maintenance, including armature rewinding (except factory based)
  • Electrical generating and transmission equipment repair and maintenance
  • Engine repair (except automotive)
  • Food machinery and equipment (industrial) repair and maintenance
  • Forestry machinery and equipment repair and maintenance
  • Foundry machinery and equipment repair and maintenance
  • Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance
  • Hydraulic equipment repair and maintenance
  • Lawn mower repair and maintenance
  • Machine tool repair and maintenance
  • Material handling equipment repair and maintenance
  • Mining machinery and equipment repair and maintenance
  • Outboard motor repair
  • Paper making and printing trade machinery repair and maintenance
  • Pump and compressor repair
  • Refrigeration equipment (industrial) repair and maintenance
  • Shipping barrel and drum reconditioning and repairing
  • Stove and/or oven (industrial) repair and maintenance
  • Textile machinery repair and maintenance
  • Washing machine and/or clothes dryer (industrial) repair and maintenance
  • Welding repair service (including automotive)

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • repairing and maintaining electronic and precision equipment are included in Class 9422 Electronic (except Domestic Appliance) and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance;
  • repairing and servicing aircraft are included in Class 2394 Aircraft Manufacturing and Repair Services;
  • repairing and servicing railway rolling stock are included in Class 2393 Railway Rolling Stock Manufacturing and Repair Services;
  • repairing and overhauling at shipyards ships of 50 tonnes and over displacement are included in Class 2391 Shipbuilding and Repair Services;
  • repairing boats of under 50 tonnes displacement are included in Class 2392 Boatbuilding and Repair Services;
  • factory rebuilding of electric motors are included in Class 2439 Other Electrical Equipment Manufacturing; and
  • repairing and maintaining domestic appliances are included in Class 9421 Domestic Appliance Repair and Maintenance.
Group

949 Other Repair and Maintenance

This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:

Class

9491 Clothing and Footwear Repair

This class consists of units mainly engaged in repairing clothing and footwear.

Primary activities

  • Clothing repair
  • Footwear (including boot and shoe) repair

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • dyeing textiles are included in Class 1334 Textile Finishing and Other Textile Product Manufacturing; and
  • shining shoes are included in Class 9539 Other Personal Services n.e.c.
Class

9499 Other Repair and Maintenance n.e.c.

This class consists of units mainly engaged in other repair and maintenance not elsewhere classified such as furniture, sporting equipment, musical instruments, jewellery, watches and clocks.

Primary activities

  • Bicycle repair
  • Furniture repair
  • Jewellery repair
  • Key duplicating
  • Luggage repair
  • Musical instrument tuning and repair
  • Sports equipment repair
  • Watch repair
  • Wheelchair repair and maintenance
Subdivision

95 Personal and Other Services

This subdivision contains the following ANZSIC groups:

Group

951 Personal Care Services

This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:

Class

9511 Hairdressing and Beauty Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in providing hairdressing services or in providing beauty services such as nail care services, facials or applying make-up.

Primary activities

  • Barber shop operation
  • Beauty service
  • Electrolysis service
  • Hair restoration service (except hair transplant service)
  • Hairdressing service
  • Make-up service
  • Nail care service
  • Skin care service
  • Tanning (solarium) service

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in providing medical skin care services such as cosmetic surgery and dermatology services, or in providing medical or surgical hair replacement or transplant services, are included in Class 8512 Specialist Medical Services.

Class

9512 Diet and Weight Reduction Centre Operation

This class consists of units mainly engaged in operating diet and weight reducing centres.

Primary activities

  • Slimming service (non-medical)
  • Weight loss centre operation (non-medical)
  • Weight loss service (non-medical)

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • operating physical fitness facilities are included in Class 9111 Health and Fitness Centres and Gymnasia Operation;
  • operating health resorts and spas that provide lodgings for visitors are included in Class 4400 Accommodation; and
  • providing catering services are included in Class 4513 Catering Services.
Group

952 Funeral, Crematorium and Cemetery Services

This group contains the following ANZSIC class:

Class

9520 Funeral, Crematorium and Cemetery Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in preparing deceased for burial, internment or cremation in organising funerals. Also included are units operating cemeteries.

Primary activities

  • Cemetery operation
  • Columbarium operation
  • Crematorium operation
  • Embalming service
  • Funeral directing
  • Mausoleum operation
  • Memorial garden (i.e. burial place) operation
  • Mortician service
  • Pet cemetery operation
  • Undertaking service
Group

953 Other Personal Services

This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:

Class

9531 Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in providing a range of laundry and/or dry-cleaning services. The services provided may be operated by customers (i.e. coin-operated or similar self-service facilities) or may be operated by the units themselves. Also included are units mainly engaged in baby napkin, linen and/or uniform hire.

Primary activities

  • Automatic laundry operation (coin-operated)
  • Baby napkin hire service
  • Carpet, upholstery and rug cleaning
  • Clothing, hat or garment (including leather), cleaning service
  • Curtain and drapery cleaning service
  • Dry-cleaning agency operation
  • Dry-cleaning service
  • Laundry agency operation
  • Laundry and dry-cleaning service
  • Laundry operation
  • Linen hire service
  • Self-service laundry operation
  • Uniform hire service

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • hiring suits or costumes are included in Class 6639 Other Goods and Equipment Rental and Hiring n.e.c.; and
  • dyeing clothing are included in Class 1334 Textile Finishing and Other Textile Product Manufacturing.
Class

9532 Photographic Film Processing

This class consists of units mainly engaged in developing film and/or making photographic slides, prints and enlargements.

Primary activities

  • Digital photograph processing
  • Film developing and printing (except motion picture)
  • Photofinishing laboratory operation
  • Photofinishing service
  • Photographic film processing

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in processing motion picture film for the motion picture and television industries are included in Class 5514 Post-production Services and Other Motion Picture and Video Activities.

Class

9533 Parking Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in providing parking space for motor vehicles, usually on an hourly, daily or monthly basis. Also included are units providing valet parking services.

Primary activities

  • Automobile parking garage or lot operation
  • Car park operation
  • Parking service
  • Parking station operation
  • Valet parking services
Class

9534 Brothel Keeping and Prostitution Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in operating brothels and providing escort and prostitution services.

Primary activities

  • Brothel operation
  • Escort service (prostitution)
  • Massage parlour operation
  • Prostitution service
Class

9539 Other Personal Services n.e.c.

This class consists of units mainly engaged in providing personal services not elsewhere classified.

Primary activities

  • Astrology service
  • Baby sitting service (except in child care centres or preschools)
  • Cloak room service
  • Fortune telling service
  • Genealogy service
  • Heraldry service
  • Introductory agency operation
  • Marriage celebrant service
  • Personal fitness training service
  • Pet boarding service
  • Pet grooming service
  • Psychic service
  • Sauna bath operation
  • Shoe shining
  • Tattooing and piercing service
  • Turkish bath operation
  • Wedding chapel operation (except church)
Group

954 Religious Services

This group contains the following ANZSIC class:

Class

9540 Religious Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in providing religious services and/or operating facilities such as churches, mosques, religious temples and monasteries. Also included are units which administer an organised religion or promote religious activities.

Primary activities

  • Bible society operation
  • Church operation
  • Convent operation (except schools)
  • Diocesan registry operation
  • Missionary society operation
  • Monastery operation (except schools)
  • Mosque operation
  • Religious organisation operation
  • Religious shrine operation
  • Religious temple operation
  • Synagogue operation

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • operating wedding chapels are included in Class 9539 Other Personal Services n.e.c.;
  • operating schools, colleges or universities (including religious programs/curricula) are included in the appropriate classes of Division P Education and Training; and
  • providing health and social assistance services are included in the appropriate classes of Division Q Health Care and Social Assistance.
Group

955 Civic, Professional and Other Interest Group Services

This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:

Class

9551 Business and Professional Association Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in promoting the business interests of their members (except of organised labour associations and union members).

Primary activities

  • Accountants’ association operation
  • Architects’ association operation
  • Bankers’ association operation
  • Builders’ association operation
  • Chamber of Commerce operation
  • Chamber of Manufacturers operation
  • Chemists’ association operation
  • Dentists’ association operation
  • Employers’ association operation
  • Engineers’ association operation (except trade union)
  • Farmers’ association operation
  • Lawyers’ association operation
  • Manufacturers’ association operation
  • Medical association operation
  • Mining association operation
  • Retail traders’ association operation
  • Surveyors’ association operation
  • Trade association operation (except trade union)

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in promoting the professional interests of labour and union employees such as trade unions are included in Class 9552 Labour Association Services.

Class

9552 Labour Association Services

This class consists of units mainly engaged in promoting the interests of organised labour and union employees. Also included are units of associations and councils promoting such interests.

Primary activities

  • Employees’ association operation
  • Industrial union operation
  • Trade union operation
  • Union association operation

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in promoting the business interests of their members (except religious services) are included in Class 9551 Business and Professional Association Services.

Class

9559 Other Interest Group Services n.e.c.

This class consists of units mainly engaged in activities which promote the interests of their members (except religious, business and professional, and labour association services). Included in this class are units providing a range of community or sectional interests or in providing civic and social advocacy services not elsewhere classified.

Primary activities

  • Accident prevention association operation
  • Animal (including wildlife) welfare association or league operation
  • Association operation (for promotion of community or sectional interests)
  • Automobile association operation
  • Civil liberty service
  • Club operation (for the promotion of community or sectional interests)
  • Community association operation
  • Conservation (including wildlife) association operation
  • Consumers’ association operation
  • Disease research (including cancer and heart disease) fundraising
  • Human rights association operation
  • Interest group service n.e.c.
  • Marae operation (NZ only)
  • Parent-teachers’ association operation
  • Pensioners’ association operation
  • Political party operation
  • Social club operation
  • Veterans’ association operation
  • Welfare fundraising
  • Women’s interest group association operation
  • Youth club/association (including girl guides and scouts) operation

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • promoting the business interests of a range professional associations are included in Class 9551 Business and Professional Association Services;
  • promoting the professional interests of labour and union employees such as trade unions are included in Class 9552 Labour Association Services;
  • organising and conducting fundraising campaigns on a contract or fee basis are included in the appropriate classes of Division N Administrative and Support Services;
  • conducting medical research are included in Class 6910 Scientific Research Services; and
  • providing legal services for social advocacy, environment, wildlife and other similar associations are included in Class 6931 Legal Services.
Subdivision

96 Private Households Employing Staff and Undifferentiated Goods- and Service-Producing Activities of Households for Own Use

This subdivision contains the following ANZSIC group:

Group

960 Private Households Employing Staff and Undifferentiated Goods- and Service-Producing Activities of Households for Own Use

This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:

Class

9601 Private Households Employing Staff

This class consists of units mainly engaged in employing workers on or about household premises in activities primarily concerned with the operation of the household. These units may employ individuals such as cooks, maids, nannies, butlers and chauffeurs, as well as outside workers such as gardeners, caretakers and other maintenance workers.

Primary activities

  • Household, private, employing
  • Private household employing domestic personnel
  • Private household employing staff

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • cleaning building interiors, cleaning transportation equipment interiors and/or windows, and cleaning carpets, upholstery and rugs are included in Class 7311 Building and Other Industrial Cleaning Services; and
  • providing gardening services only (without also providing landscaping services) are included in Class 7313 Gardening Services.
Class

9602 Undifferentiated Goods-Producing Activities of Households for Own Use

This class consists of units mainly engaged in a range of subsistence goods-producing activities relating to households’ production of goods for their own subsistence. These activities include hunting and gathering, farming and the production of shelter, clothing and other goods by the household for its own subsistence.

Primary activities

  • Household undifferentiated goods-producing activities (for own use)

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in:

  • providing a variety of services for subsistence purposes are included in Class 9603 Undifferentiated Service-Producing Activities of Private Households for Own Use;
  • producing marketed goods are classified to the appropriate goods-producing industry; and
  • undertaking specific goods-producing subsistence activities are classified to the appropriate goods-producing industry.
Class

9603 Undifferentiated Service-Producing Activities of Households for Own Use

This class consists of units mainly engaged in a range of subsistence services-producing activities relating to households. These activities include cooking, teaching, caring for household members and other services produced by the household for its own subsistence.

Primary activities

  • Household undifferentiated service-producing activities (for own use)

Exclusions/References

Units mainly engaged in producing multiple goods for subsistence purposes are included in Class 9602 Undifferentiated Goods-Producing Activities of Private Households for Own Use.