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21: What happens if regulations specifying that there is only 1 means of complying with building code are made or not made
or “Rules tell you how to build safely, but if there are no rules, you can choose how to follow the building code.”
You could also call this:

“The head building person can make special rules that help people follow the building rules properly.”

The chief executive can create an acceptable solution or a verification method to help you follow the building code. They will announce this in the Gazette, which is an official government publication.

If you use one of these acceptable solutions or verification methods, the law says you have followed the building code rules that the solution or method is about.

However, there might be some extra rules that change how this works. These extra rules are explained in another part of the law called section 20.

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Next up: 23: Effect of acceptable solution or verification method

or “Using an approved plan is one way, but not the only way, to follow building rules.”
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Building code: Acceptable solution or verification method

22Acceptable solution or verification method for use in establishing compliance with building code

  1. The chief executive may, by notice in the Gazette, issue an acceptable solution or a verification method for use in establishing compliance with the building code.

  2. A person who complies with an acceptable solution or a verification method must, for the purposes of this Act, be treated as having complied with the provisions of the building code to which that acceptable solution or verification method relates.

  3. Subsection (2) is subject to any regulations referred to in section 20.

Notes
  • Section 22: replaced, on , by section 11 of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).