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192: Criteria for registration
or “The boss needs to check certain things before adding someone to the list of people who can give building permission.”
You could also call this:

“Registered people can do building consent work, but some can only do what they're allowed to do.”

If your name is on the register of building consent authorities, you can do the jobs of a building consent authority under this Part and Part 2 of the law.

If your name is on the register but you’re not a territorial authority or a regional authority, you can only do the jobs that match what you’re allowed to do. This is called your scope of accreditation.

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or “This law explains how to ask for permission to be a building helper”
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Part 3 Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation
Responsibilities of chief executive: Power of chief executive to register persons as building consent authorities for purposes of this Act

193Effect of registration

  1. A person whose name is entered in the register of building consent authorities may perform the functions of a building consent authority under this Part and Part 2.

  2. However, a person whose name is entered in the register of building consent authorities but who is not a territorial authority or a regional authority may perform only those functions that correspond with, or are within, the person's scope of accreditation.

Notes
  • Section 193(1): amended, on , by section 16(2)(d) of the Building Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 31).
  • Section 193(2): amended, on , by section 3(5) of the Building Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 31).