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Building Act 2004

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

59: Liability to pay levy: territorial authority

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"Councils must pay a levy when they approve a building plan"

When a territorial authority grants a building consent, they become liable to pay a levy to the chief executive. This levy is the one payable under section 53 for the building work related to the consent. You need to pay the total amount of the levy by the 20th day of the month after the month the building consent was granted.

The territorial authority must send a certificate with each levy payment, saying the payment is correct. This certificate must state that the payment is correct according to the authority's financial records and to the best of the person's knowledge and belief.

The levy payment and certificate are important for the territorial authority to do when granting a building consent.

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

59Liability to pay levy: territorial authority

  1. A territorial authority, on granting a building consent, becomes liable to the chief executive for the levy payable under section 53 in relation to the building work to which the building consent relates.

  2. The total amount of the levy for which a territorial authority becomes liable is due and payable to the chief executive by the 20th day of the month following the month in which the relevant building consent was granted.

  3. Every payment of the levy must be accompanied by a certificate of the territorial authority, or of an officer or agent of the territorial authority, that states that the payment is correct—

  4. according to the financial records of the territorial authority; and
    1. to the best of that person's knowledge and belief.

      Notes
      • Section 59(1): amended, on , by section 6 of the Building (Earthquake-prone Building Deadlines and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 49).
      • Section 59(1): amended, on , by section 7(2)(c) of the Building Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 31).
      • Section 59(2): amended, on , by section 7(2)(a) of the Building Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 31).