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45: How to apply for building consent
or “ You need to fill out a special form and provide plans and other important information to ask for permission to build something. ”

You could also call this:

“Small changes to building plans can be made without filling out special forms”

If you want to make small changes to your building consent, you don’t need to use a special form. However, you still need to follow all the other rules in section 45 when you ask for these small changes.

The same rules that apply to normal building consents (sections 48 to 50) also apply to these small changes, but they might be used a bit differently.

If the building consent authority (the people who approve building consents) agrees to your small changes, they have to write down what those changes are. But they don’t have to give you a whole new building consent document.

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Next up: 45B: Changes to plans and specifications that have national multiple-use approval

or “Making small changes to approved building plans is allowed, but big changes need a new approval.”

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45A: Minor variations to building consents

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Building work—Project information memoranda and building consents: Building consents

45AMinor variations to building consents

An application for a minor variation to a building consent—
is not required to be made in the prescribed form; but
must comply with all other applicable requirements of section 45.

Sections 48 to 50 apply, with all necessary modifications, to an application for a minor variation.
A building consent authority that grants a minor variation—
must record the minor variation in writing; but
is not required to issue an amended building consent.