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109: Territorial authority must consider recommendation to amend compliance schedule
or “The local council must listen to and think about ideas to change the building safety checklist.”

You could also call this:

“The building owner must get yearly reports about safety checks and keep them for two years”

If you own a building that has a compliance schedule, you need to do a few things. You must get written reports every year about the inspections, maintenance, and reporting procedures mentioned in the compliance schedule. These reports need to be signed by the people who did these tasks. They might be independently qualified people or other suitable individuals.

You need to keep these reports and the compliance schedule for two years. When asked, you have to show these reports to the local council (territorial authority) or any person or group that has the right to inspect your building under any law.

You also need to show where these reports and the compliance schedule can be found. This information should be on the building warrant of fitness that you display as required by section 108(4).

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Next up: 111: Inspections by territorial authority

or “The council can check buildings and their safety systems to make sure the yearly safety certificate is correct.”

Part 2 Building
Code compliance certificates, certificates of acceptance, and compliance schedules: Annual building warrant of fitness

110Owner must obtain reports on compliance schedule

  1. An owner of a building for which a compliance schedule has been issued must—

  2. obtain annual written reports relating to the inspection, maintenance, and reporting procedures of the compliance schedule signed by each independently qualified person or other person who carried out 1 or more of those procedures; and
    1. keep those reports, together with the compliance schedule, for a period of 2 years; and
      1. produce those reports for inspection, when required, by—
        1. the territorial authority; and
          1. any person or organisation who or that has the right to inspect the building under any Act; and
          2. show the location of those reports and the compliance schedule on the building warrant of fitness displayed in accordance with section 108(4).
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              Notes
              • Section 110(a): amended, on , by section 49 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
              • Section 110(a): amended, on , by section 25 of the Building Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 4).