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25: Content of acceptable solution or verification method
or “This explains what an acceptable solution or verification method must include and can't include in simple terms.”

You could also call this:

“The government must put building rules on their website for everyone to see and keep them up to date.”

You need to know about how the chief executive makes acceptable solutions and verification methods available online. The chief executive must put new acceptable solutions or verification methods on the Ministry’s website quickly after they are issued. Even if an acceptable solution or verification method is changed or removed, you can still find the original version on the website. When an acceptable solution or verification method is changed, the chief executive must quickly put three things on the website: the change itself, the full updated version, and the original version. This way, you can always find the most recent information as well as past versions.

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Next up: 26: Chief executive may issue warning about, or ban use of, building products or building methods

or “ The boss of building safety can tell everyone to be careful about or stop using certain building things if they might not be safe. ”

Part 2 Building
Building code: Acceptable solution or verification method

25AAcceptable solutions and verification methods to be available on Ministry's Internet site

  1. The chief executive must ensure that—

  2. promptly after a new acceptable solution or verification method is issued, a digital copy is publicly available on the Ministry's Internet site:
    1. even after an acceptable solution or a verification method has been amended or revoked, a digital copy of it in its original form continues to be publicly available on the Ministry's Internet site:
      1. promptly after an acceptable solution or a verification method is amended, there are publicly available on the Ministry's Internet site—
        1. a digital copy of the amendment; and
          1. a digital copy of the acceptable solution or verification method in its up-to-date form.
          Notes
          • Section 25A: replaced, on , by section 11 of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).