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Building Act 2004

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

246: Regional authorities may agree on terms of transfer

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“Regional groups can talk and decide how to switch their jobs and responsibilities to each other.”

If you are a regional authority and you need to transfer some of your jobs or powers to another regional authority, you need to make an agreement with them. You and the other regional authority will decide together how this transfer will work. You can talk about and agree on any special rules or conditions for the transfer. This is all part of a process described in section 244 of the law.

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“When a job is given to a different group, they can do it as if it was always their job, but they can also change their mind about doing it.”

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

246Regional authorities may agree on terms of transfer

  1. A regional authority from whom functions, duties, or powers are to be transferred under section 244 and a regional 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.