• Building owners are at their choices to appoint VBAS Assessors on the VBAS Assessors' Lists to carry out VBAS assessment.
• Three VBAS Assessors' Lists, List 1, List 2A and List 2B, are established.

List 1 VBAS Assessors	List 2 VBAS Assessors
Assessment of Elements 1-10 of Building Safety Category & Building Management Category	List 2A	List 2B
	Assessment of Elements 7-10 of Building Management Category only	Assessment of Elements 8-10 of Building Management Category only

• Either single or multiple VBAS Assessors are allowed in a building assessment.  However, for Building Safety Category, only one VBAS Assessor on List 1 shall be appointed for inspection while another VBAS Assessor on List 1 can be appointed for supervision of repair works.  For different individual elements of Building Management Category, the same or multiple VBAS Assessors are allowed.
• To avoid conflict of interest, building owners shall not appoint a person as VBAS Assessor if he/she has personally involved in any work or employment in providing property management, maintenance and repair services as the Building Manager of the building / development for the past one year counting from the date of appointment.
• Building owners should not engage an appointed VBAS Assessor in rendering property management, maintenance and repair services as the Building Manager of the building / development until the completion of the assessment.
• VBAS Assessors shall exercise their professional judgment and abide by the code of conduct as stipulated in the Handbook for VBAS Assessors to avoid any personal interest which will or may affect their carrying out of building assessment.  Each VBAS Assessor being appointed for the building assessment is required to sign a "Declaration of Interest" Form (Form No. VBAS-VA-02).
• Within 7 working days after appointment, each appointed VBAS Assessor shall submit a "Notice of Appointment of VBAS Assessor"(Form No. VBAS-VA-10) duly signed by the applicant and the VBAS Assessor together with the "Declaration of Interest" Form to the Panel Secretariat.
• If there is a change of the VBAS Assessor(s) during the assessment process, the applicant and the newly appointed VBAS Assessor(s) are required to notify the Panel Secretariat in writing and follow the same procedures as mentioned above.