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170: Chief executive must consult in performing certain functions
or “The boss must ask for help when making decisions about fire safety and disability issues.”
You could also call this:

“The head of the building department can ask a special group for advice about building rules and problems”

You can ask a group of experts called a building advisory panel for advice on important building matters. This panel can help with different things:

  1. They can tell you about new building designs and technologies. They can also advise on how these might affect building rules, solutions, and warnings about certain building products or methods.

  2. They can tell you if the current building laws are working well.

  3. They can point out building issues that aren’t covered by current laws but should be.

  4. They can give advice on any other building topic you think is important.

After you get advice from the panel, you need to think about what they’ve said. But you don’t have to do exactly what they suggest.

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Next up: 172: Appointment of building advisory panel

or “The boss must create a group of building experts to give advice, making sure they have different skills and backgrounds.”
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Part 3 Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation
Responsibilities of chief executive: Functions, duties, and powers of chief executive generally

171Chief executive may seek advice from building advisory panel

  1. The chief executive may, at any time, seek advice from a building advisory panel appointed under section 172 on—

  2. current and emerging trends in building design, building technologies, and other factors that may affect—
    1. the building code and acceptable solutions and verification methods:
      1. any warnings or bans under section 26(2) in force in relation to a building product or building method:
        1. any guidance information published by the chief executive under section 175:
        2. whether this Act or the regulations are achieving their purpose:
          1. building issues that are not covered by this Act, but which the panel considers should be dealt with by legislation:
            1. any other matter that the chief executive considers appropriate for the panel to advise on.

              1. The chief executive must consider, but is not bound by, any advice given by the panel.

              Notes
              • Section 171(1)(a)(i): amended, on , by section 75(3) of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).
              • Section 171(1)(a)(ii): replaced, on , by section 47 of the Building (Building Products and Methods, Modular Components, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 21).