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30B: How to apply for national multiple-use approval
or “To get approval for using the same building design many times, you need to send a special form with all the right information to the building boss.”
You could also call this:

“Rules for special building designs that need expert approval before they can be used in many places”

When you apply for a national multiple-use approval, and your plans include design work that is restricted building work, there are some rules you need to follow.

The design work must be done or supervised by people who have the right licence to do this kind of work. These people are called licensed building practitioners.

When you send in your plans, you also need to include a certificate of work. This certificate needs to be from the licensed building practitioners who did or supervised the design work. The certificate should say what design work they did.

The certificate also needs to say one of two things. It should either say that the design work follows the building code, or it should say if any parts of the building code need to be changed or if you need permission to not follow some parts. If changes or permissions are needed, the certificate should say what they are.

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Building code: National multiple-use approvals

30CApplications for national multiple-use approval relating to design work that is restricted building work

  1. This section applies if an application for a national multiple-use approval is accompanied by plans and specifications that contain design work (relating to building work) that is restricted building work.

  2. The design work referred to in subsection (1) must be carried out or supervised by 1 or more licensed building practitioners who are licensed to carry out or supervise that work.

  3. The plans and specifications that contain the design work referred to in subsection (1) must be accompanied by a certificate of work—

  4. provided by 1 or more licensed building practitioners who carried out or supervised that design work; and
    1. that identifies that design work; and
      1. that states—
        1. that the design work complies with the building code; or
          1. whether waivers or modifications of the building code are required and, if so, what those waivers or modifications are.

          Notes
          • Section 30C: inserted, on , by section 9 of the Building Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 25).
          • Section 30C(1): replaced, on , by section 15 of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).
          • Section 30C(3): amended, on , by section 13 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).