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30D: Chief executive must decide whether to accept, for processing, application for national multiple-use approval
or “The boss must quickly decide if a request for a national building plan is okay to look at further.”
You could also call this:

“How the boss decides if a building plan can be used lots of times”

When you apply for a national multiple-use approval, the chief executive has to decide whether to give you the approval or not. They have to make this decision after they accept your application for processing.

If there are rules about how long the chief executive can take to make this decision, they must follow those rules. These rules are found in section 402(1)(kb) of the Building Act.

The chief executive can ask you for more information about your application if they need it. If they do this, the time they have to make their decision stops until you give them the information they asked for.

Remember, a national multiple-use approval is for building designs that you might want to use more than once in different places.

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Building code: National multiple-use approvals

30EProcessing application for national multiple-use approval

  1. The chief executive must, after accepting for processing an application for a national multiple-use approval, decide whether to—

  2. issue the national multiple-use approval; or
    1. refuse to issue the national multiple-use approval.

      1. If regulations made under section 402(1)(kb) are in force, the chief executive must make the decision referred to in subsection (1) within the period of time prescribed in those regulations.

      2. The chief executive may require further reasonable information in respect of an application for a national multiple-use approval before making the decision referred to in subsection (1), and any prescribed period of time within which that decision must be made is suspended until the chief executive receives that information.

      Notes
      • Section 30E: inserted, on , by section 9 of the Building Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 25).