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87A: Notices to building consent authority when owner-builder carries out restricted building work
or “If you're doing special building work yourself, you need to tell the building people about it”
You could also call this:

“A special builder must write down what they did and give it to the owner and the local council.”

If you are a licensed building practitioner and you do special building work called restricted building work, you need to write down what you did. This is called a record of work. You need to do this when you finish the work. You don’t need to do this if you are an owner-builder.

You need to give this record to two people: the owner of the building and the local council. The record must be in a special form that the government has made.

Writing this record doesn’t mean you are responsible for any problems with the work. It also doesn’t mean the owner can sue you if they couldn’t before.

There’s another rule in section 362I(1)(c) that this doesn’t change.

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or “If a builder sees that work isn't following the plan, they must tell the council and the owner right away.”
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Requirements for building work: Restricted building work must be carried out or supervised by licensed building practitioners

88Licensed building practitioner to provide record of work in respect of restricted building work

  1. Each licensed building practitioner who carries out (other than as an owner-builder) or supervises restricted building work under a building consent must, on completion of the restricted building work, provide the persons specified in subsection (2) with a record of work, in the prescribed form, stating what restricted building work the licensed building practitioner carried out or supervised.

  2. The persons are—

  3. the owner; and
    1. the territorial authority for the district in which the restricted building work is situated.

      1. Repealed

      2. A record of work given under subsection (1) does not, of itself,—

      3. create any liability in relation to any matter to which the record of work relates; or
        1. give rise to any civil liability to the owner that would not otherwise exist if the licensed building practitioner were not required to provide the record of work.

          1. Subsection (4) does not limit section 362I(1)(c).

          Notes
          • Section 88 heading: amended, on , by section 27(1) of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
          • Section 88(1): replaced, on , by section 27(2) of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
          • Section 88(3): repealed, on , by section 27(3) of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
          • Section 88(4): replaced, on , by section 27(4) of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
          • Section 88(5): amended, on , by section 20 of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).