Plain language law

New Zealand law explained for everyone

Building Act 2004

Building - Code compliance certificates, certificates of acceptance, and compliance schedules - Annual building warrant of fitness

111: Inspections by territorial authority

You could also call this:

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

You should know that an agent of a territorial authority can inspect buildings with compliance schedules. This agent can come during normal working hours to check the building and its specified systems.

When the agent inspects, they are making sure two things are correct. First, they check if the annual building warrant of fitness, which is given as per section 108, is accurate. Second, they make sure that every report mentioned in section 110 is also correct.

The agent does this by taking all reasonable steps to verify the information. This is what ‘inspection’ means in this part of the law.

This text is automatically generated. It might be out of date or be missing some parts. Find out more about how we do this.

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM306873.

Topics:
Housing and property > Home safety and repairs
Government and voting > Local councils
Previous

110: Owner must obtain reports on compliance schedule, or

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

Next

112: Alterations to existing buildings, or

“This law explains how to make changes to old buildings while keeping them safe and accessible for everyone.”

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

111Inspections by territorial authority

  1. An agent of a territorial authority authorised for the purposes of this section is entitled, at all times during normal working hours, to inspect—

  2. a building for which a compliance schedule has been issued; and
    1. the specified systems in the building.

      1. Repealed

      2. In this section, inspection means the taking of all reasonable steps to ensure that—

      3. an annual building warrant of fitness supplied under section 108 is correct; and
        1. every report under section 110 is correct.

          Notes
          • Section 111(2): repealed, on , by section 50 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).