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102A: Procedure for obtaining compliance schedule where building consent not required
or “How to get a compliance schedule for your building when you don't need a building consent”
You could also call this:

“This explains what must be included in a list of building safety checks.”

A compliance schedule is a document that you need for certain building systems. It must include several important details about these systems:

You have to list and describe each system that the schedule covers. This includes stating what type of system it is and, if you know, the brand or make of the system.

You also need to write down the performance standards for each system. This means explaining how well the system should work.

The schedule must describe how to inspect and maintain the systems. It should also explain how to report on them. These procedures are meant to make sure the systems can perform to the standards you set. Qualified people or other appropriate individuals will follow these procedures.

You can include the inspection, maintenance, and reporting procedures in two ways:

You can describe them directly in the compliance schedule. Or, you can refer to other documents that explain these procedures. These might be solutions or methods that the government has approved, or information about specific building products or methods.

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Next up: 104: Building consent authority must notify territorial authority of issue of compliance schedule

or “The authority that gives building permits must tell the local council when they give out a compliance schedule.”
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Part 2 Building
Code compliance certificates, certificates of acceptance, and compliance schedules: Compliance schedules

103Content of compliance schedule

  1. A compliance schedule must—

  2. state and describe each of the specified systems covered by the compliance schedule, including a statement of the type and (if known) make of each specified system; and
    1. state the performance standards for the specified systems; and
      1. describe the inspection, maintenance, and reporting procedures to be followed by independently qualified persons or other persons in respect of the specified systems to ensure that those systems are capable of, and are, performing to the performance standards.

        1. For the purposes of subsection (1)(c), the inspection, maintenance, and reporting procedures of the compliance schedule may be identified—

        2. by description in the compliance schedule; or
          1. by reference to—
            1. a prescribed acceptable solution or prescribed verification method in a regulation referred to in section 20; or
              1. an acceptable solution or a verification method issued under section 22; or
                1. a building product or building method.

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                  Notes
                  • Section 103(1): replaced, on , by section 43 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
                  • Section 103(2)(b)(ii): amended, on , by section 22 of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).
                  • Section 103(2)(b)(iii): replaced, on , by section 32 of the Building (Building Products and Methods, Modular Components, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 21).