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Building Act 2004

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

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

You could also call this:

"Checking building consents to ensure the right levy is paid"

When you get a building consent, the people who gave it to you must keep safe all the records about it. They have to keep the estimated value of the building work, the amount of levy payable under section 53, and the date the levy was paid to the chief executive. You need to know that the chief executive is in charge of making sure the levy is paid.

The chief executive or their team can check the records of the building consent authority to make sure they paid the levy. They can look at the records of building consents and financial records, and even make copies of them. The building consent authority must let them do this right away.

If the chief executive's team checks the records, they have to tell the chief executive what they found. The building consent authority has to keep all the records safe and make them available when the chief executive's team needs to check them. This is so the chief executive can make sure everything is done correctly.

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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 building consent authority must keep in safe custody all records of building consents granted by the building consent authority, 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 chief executive.

        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 building consent authority is liable has been paid, and whether this section has been complied with,—

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

                1. A building consent 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).

                Notes
                • Section 64(1): replaced, on , by section 9(1) of the Building (Earthquake-prone Building Deadlines and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 49).
                • Section 64(2): amended, on , by section 9(2) of the Building (Earthquake-prone Building Deadlines and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 49).
                • Section 64(2)(a): amended, on , by section 9(2) of the Building (Earthquake-prone Building Deadlines and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 49).
                • Section 64(3): amended, on , by section 9(3) of the Building (Earthquake-prone Building Deadlines and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 49).