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Building Act 2004

Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation - Responsibilities of chief executive - Power of chief executive to register persons as building consent authorities for purposes of this Act

195: Chief executive must decide application for registration

You could also call this:

“The boss must quickly look at your form and tell you if you can help with building stuff or not.”

When someone applies to be registered as a building consent authority, the person in charge (called the chief executive) must make a decision about the application as quickly as possible. This can only happen after they receive an application that follows all the rules in section 194.

The chief executive has three important jobs to do:

First, they need to decide if they will register the person who applied.

Second, they must write a letter to tell the person what they decided.

Third, if the chief executive says no to the application, they have to explain why in the letter.

This process helps make sure that decisions about who can be a building consent authority are made fairly and that people understand why they were accepted or not.

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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

195Chief executive must decide application for registration

  1. The chief executive must, as soon as practicable after receiving an application for registration that complies with section 194,—

  2. decide whether to register the applicant; and
    1. give the applicant written notice of his or her decision; and
      1. if the chief executive decides to refuse the application, state the reasons for the refusal in the notice given under paragraph (b).