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Building Act 2004

Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation - Responsibilities relating to product certification - Appointment of product certification accreditation body

261: Chief executive may appoint product certification accreditation body

You could also call this:

“The boss can choose someone to check if product testers are doing a good job, or do it themselves.”

The chief executive has the power to choose someone to be a product certification accreditation body. They can also remove this person from the role whenever they want to. When the law talks about a product certification accreditation body, it means either the person the chief executive picked or, if no one was picked, the chief executive themselves. This is all about making sure there’s always someone responsible for accrediting product certifications, even if the chief executive hasn’t appointed anyone else to do it.

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“The boss decides how often building product checkers are checked and what rules they must follow.”

Part 3 Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation
Responsibilities relating to product certification: Appointment of product certification accreditation body

261Chief executive may appoint product certification accreditation body

  1. The chief executive may—

  2. appoint a person as a product certification accreditation body; and
    1. revoke the appointment at any time.

      1. A reference in this subpart to a product certification accreditation body is a reference to—

      2. the person appointed under subsection (1); or
        1. if no person is appointed, the chief executive.