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99A: Refusal of application for certificate of acceptance
or “If the council says no to your building certificate request, they must tell you why in writing.”
You could also call this:

“Buildings need a special checklist to make sure they're safe, especially if they have special equipment or a cable car.”

You need a compliance schedule for your building if it’s not just a single home and it has special systems or a cable car. If your building is just a single home, you only need a compliance schedule if it has a cable car.

Before 31 March 2008, the rules were a bit different. Buildings that weren’t single homes needed a compliance schedule only if they had special systems, but not for cable cars. Single homes didn’t need a compliance schedule at all.

If a cable car serves more than one building, only one of those buildings needs to have a compliance schedule for the cable car. But this doesn’t mean you can ignore your other responsibilities for the cable car.

You still need to follow all the rules in sections 105 to 110 about compliance schedules, even if another building has the schedule for your shared cable car.

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Next up: 101: Owner must comply with requirement for compliance schedule

or “You must get a special safety checklist for your building or you could be fined.”
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Code compliance certificates, certificates of acceptance, and compliance schedules: Compliance schedules

100Requirement for compliance schedule

  1. A building not used wholly as a single household unit—

  2. requires a compliance schedule if—
    1. it has a specified system; or
      1. it has a cable car attached to it or servicing it; and
      2. requires the schedule for all specified systems it has and any cable car it has attached to it or servicing it.

        1. A building used wholly as a single household unit—

        2. requires a compliance schedule only if it has a cable car attached to it or servicing it; and
          1. requires the schedule only for the cable car.

            1. Before 31 March 2008,—

            2. a building not used wholly as a single household unit—
              1. requires a compliance schedule only if it has a specified system other than a cable car; and
                1. does not require a compliance schedule for any cable car attached to it or servicing it; and
                2. a building used wholly as a single household unit does not require a compliance schedule.

                  1. The requirement in subsections (1) and (2) that a building have a compliance schedule if it has a cable car attached to it or servicing it is satisfied, in the case of a cable car that is attached to or services more than 1 building, if any of the buildings in question have a compliance schedule for the cable car.

                  2. Except to the extent that it provides, subsection (4) does not relieve an owner of any of the obligations under sections 105 to 110.

                  Notes
                  • Section 100: replaced, on , by section 11 of the Building Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 31).
                  • Section 100(4): inserted, on , by section 40 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
                  • Section 100(5): inserted, on , by section 40 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).