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56: Payment of levy sufficient unless estimated value of building work changes
or “You don't need to pay more money for building work unless the cost of the work changes after you've already paid.”
You could also call this:

“ When you build in steps, you need to count the cost of earlier work when figuring out how much to pay for the building fee. ”

When you’re doing building work that’s happening in stages, you need to think about how much the whole project will cost when you’re figuring out how much levy to pay. You should include the cost of the earlier stage in your total, even if that earlier stage didn’t cost very much on its own.

If you’re doing new work on a building where you’ve already done some work before, you need to treat this new work as another stage of the earlier work. This applies if you got (or should have got) a building consent for the earlier work, and you haven’t received a code compliance certificate for it yet when you apply for a building consent for the new work.

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

57Payment of levy if building work completed in stages

  1. If building work is, or is proposed to be, completed in stages, the estimated value of the building work must be taken, for the purpose of assessing the levy payable for the building work, to include the estimated value of the preceding stage (if that preceding stage had an estimated value of less than the prescribed minimum estimated value).

  2. For the purposes of subsection (1), any new building work in connection with a building must be treated as a further stage of any previous building work in connection with that building if—

  3. a building consent was, or ought to have been, obtained for that previous building work; and
    1. the code compliance certificate for that building work has not been issued as at the date of the application for a building consent for the new building work.

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