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Building Act 2004

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

31: Building consent authority must apply for project information memorandum

You could also call this:

“The building authority must ask for and share important project information when someone wants to build something.”

When you apply for a building consent, the building consent authority must ask the local council for a project information memorandum. This is a document that contains important information about your building project. After the building consent authority gets this memorandum from the council, they must give you a copy of it.

However, there are two situations where the building consent authority doesn’t need to do this. First, if the building consent authority is also the local council for the area where you want to build. Second, if a project information memorandum has already been issued before you applied for the building consent.

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

31Building consent authority must apply for project information memorandum

  1. A building consent authority must,—

  2. on receiving an application for a building consent, apply for a project information memorandum to the territorial authority for the district in which the proposed building work is to be situated; and
    1. on receiving the project information memorandum from the territorial authority, provide a copy of the memorandum to the owner.

      1. Subsection (1) does not apply if—

      2. the building consent authority is the territorial authority for the district in which the proposed building work is to be situated; or
        1. a project information memorandum has been issued before the application for a building consent is made.

          Notes
          • Section 31(2)(a): amended, on , by section 10 of the Building Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 25).