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Building Act 2004

Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation - Responsibilities of territorial authorities - Transfer of functions, duties, or powers of territorial authority

235: Territorial authorities may agree on terms of transfer

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“Local councils can decide together how to shift responsibilities from one to another”

You and another local council can make an agreement when transferring responsibilities. If your council is giving or receiving duties related to buildings, you need to make a deal with the other council. You can decide together what the rules of this transfer will be. This applies to any functions, duties, or powers that are being moved between councils under section 233.

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234: Procedure for transfer, or

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“When a job is given to a different local council, they can do it as if it was always their job, but they can also give it back.”

Part 3 Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation
Responsibilities of territorial authorities: Transfer of functions, duties, or powers of territorial authority

235Territorial authorities may agree on terms of transfer

  1. A territorial authority from whom functions, duties, or powers are to be transferred under section 233 and a territorial authority to whom those functions, duties, or powers are to be transferred—

  2. must enter into an agreement in respect of the transfer; and
    1. may agree on the terms and conditions of the transfer.

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