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Building Act 2004

Building - Requirements for building work - Other provisions relating to building work generally

90: Inspections by building consent authorities

You could also call this:

“The law says people from the building office can check on buildings and building work to make sure it's being done right.”

When you get a building consent, you agree to let people from the building consent authority come and check on the work. These people are called agents. They can come during normal work hours or when building work is happening.

The agents can look at the land where the building work is happening or will happen. They can also look at the building work itself, whether it’s happening at the building site or somewhere else. They’re allowed to inspect any building too.

Your building consent might have some specific rules about inspections. Even if it doesn’t, the rules in this section still apply.

When we say ‘inspection’, we mean the agents will do everything they reasonably can to make sure the building work follows what’s in the building consent.

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Requirements for building work: Other provisions relating to building work generally

90Inspections by building consent authorities

  1. Every building consent is subject to the condition that agents authorised by the building consent authority for the purposes of this section are entitled, at all times during normal working hours or while building work is being done, to inspect—

  2. land on which building work is being or is proposed to be carried out; and
    1. building work that has been or is being carried out on or off the building site; and
      1. any building.

        1. The provisions (if any) that are endorsed on a building consent in relation to inspection during the carrying out of building work must be taken to include the provisions of this section.

        2. In this section, inspection means the taking of all reasonable steps to ensure that building work is being carried out in accordance with a building consent.

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