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63: Chief executive may obtain information in order to assess amount of levy payable
or “The boss can ask for details about building costs to work out how much money people should pay”
You could also call this:

“Checking records to make sure building fees are paid correctly”

You need to keep records of all building consents granted in your area. These records must include how much the building work is expected to cost, how much levy needs to be paid, and when the levy was paid to you.

The chief executive, or people they allow, can check these records. They want to make sure you’ve paid the right amount of levy and followed the rules. They can ask to see your building consent records and financial records. They can look at these records and make copies.

If the chief executive or their people ask to see these records, you must show them right away.

After looking at the records, the chief executive’s people must tell the chief executive what they found.

This helps make sure everyone is paying the right amount for building work and following the rules set out in section 53.

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

64Audit of issue of building consents for purpose of ascertaining payment of levy

  1. A territorial authority must, at all times, keep in safe custody all records of building consents granted within its district, including—

  2. the estimated value of the building work to which each consent relates; and
    1. the amount of any levy payable under section 53; and
      1. the date of payment of the levy to the territorial authority.

        1. The chief executive or the chief executive's authorised officers or agents may, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the levy for which a territorial authority is liable has been paid, and whether this section has been complied with,—

        2. require a territorial authority to make available for examination the following records of the territorial authority:
          1. records of building consents; and
            1. financial records; and
            2. examine those records; and
              1. make copies of those records.

                1. A territorial authority must, on being advised of a requirement under subsection (2)(a), comply immediately with that requirement.

                2. The chief executive's authorised officers or agents must report to the chief executive the result of any examination that they have conducted under subsection (2).

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                  Notes
                  • Section 64(1): amended, on , by section 7(2)(a) of the Building Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 31).