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Building Act 2004

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47: Fire and Emergency New Zealand may give advice on applications under section 46

You could also call this:

“Firefighters can give safety tips when someone wants to build or change a building”

Fire and Emergency New Zealand can give advice about buildings when someone applies for a building consent. They have 10 working days to do this after they get a copy of the application. They can tell the building consent authority about ways for people to escape if there’s a fire, and what firefighters need to do their job in the building.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand can’t ask for the building to be better than what the building code says it needs to be. If they don’t give their advice within 10 working days, the building consent authority can make a decision without it.

When Fire and Emergency New Zealand gives advice, they write it in a special note called a memorandum. This helps the building consent authority understand what Fire and Emergency New Zealand thinks about the building’s safety.

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47Fire and Emergency New Zealand may give advice on applications under section 46

  1. Fire and Emergency New Zealand may, within 10 working days after receiving a copy of an application for a building consent under section 46, provide the building consent authority concerned with a memorandum that sets out advice on the following matters in respect of the building to which the application relates:

  2. provisions for means of escape from fire:
    1. the needs of persons who are authorised by law to enter the building to undertake fire-fighting.

      1. Fire and Emergency New Zealand must not, in the memorandum referred to in subsection (1), set out advice that provides for the building to meet performance criteria that exceed the requirements of the building code.

      2. If Fire and Emergency New Zealand does not provide a memorandum within the period specified in subsection (1), the building consent authority may proceed to determine the application without the memorandum.

      Notes
      • Section 47 heading: amended, on , by section 197 of the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017 (2017 No 17).
      • Section 47(1): amended, on , by section 197 of the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017 (2017 No 17).
      • Section 47(2): amended, on , by section 197 of the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017 (2017 No 17).
      • Section 47(3): amended, on , by section 197 of the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Act 2017 (2017 No 17).