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92: Application for code compliance certificate
or “This law explains how you ask for a certificate to show your building work follows the rules.”
You could also call this:

“The building authority has to decide quickly if your building is safe and follows the rules.”

When you want a code compliance certificate for your building work, you need to know how long it takes for the building consent authority to decide. The authority has 20 working days to make a decision after you apply for the certificate. If you and the authority agree, they can take longer than 20 days.

If you don’t apply for a certificate, the authority has 20 working days after two years from when your building consent was granted. You and the authority can agree to extend this time if needed.

The authority has to make a decision within these timeframes even if you don’t apply for a certificate. They can ask you for more information about your application during this time. If they do, the clock stops until you give them the information they need.

Remember, the time starts when you apply for the code compliance certificate, or after two years from when you got your building consent if you don’t apply. The authority will work to decide within 20 working days, but you can always agree with them to take more time if necessary.

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Next up: 94: Matters for consideration by building consent authority in deciding issue of code compliance certificate

or “This part explains what a building official must check before they can say a building is safe and follows the rules.”
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Code compliance certificates, certificates of acceptance, and compliance schedules: Code compliance certificates

93Time in which building consent authority must decide whether to issue code compliance certificate

  1. A building consent authority must decide whether to issue a code compliance certificate for building work to which a building consent relates within—

  2. 20 working days after the date specified in subsection (2); or
    1. any further period after the date specified in subsection (2) that may be agreed between the owner and the building consent authority concerned.

      1. The date referred to in subsection (1)(a) and (b) is—

      2. the date on which an application for a code compliance certificate is made under section 92; or
        1. if no application is made, the expiry of—
          1. 2 years after the date on which the building consent for the building work was granted; or
            1. any further period that may be agreed between the owner and the building consent authority concerned.

            2. Subsection (1) applies whether or not an application for a code compliance certificate is made under section 92.

            3. A building consent authority may, within the period specified in subsection (1), require further reasonable information in respect of the application for a code compliance certificate, and, if it does so, the period is suspended until it receives the information.