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261: Chief executive may appoint product certification accreditation body
or “The boss can choose someone to check if product testers are doing a good job, or do it themselves.”
You could also call this:

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

The chief executive must make a notice that says how often the product certification accreditation body needs to check on accredited product certification bodies. The chief executive can also add other important things to this notice.

The chief executive can make another notice that says some certifications for building products or building methods from other countries can be treated the same as product certifications in New Zealand. This can only happen if the chief executive thinks these products or methods meet the rules for certification.

These notices are called secondary legislation. This means they need to follow special rules about how they’re published, which you can find in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Next up: 262A: Fees for audits

or “A special group can ask for money when they check if another group is doing a good job with building products.”
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Part 3 Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation
Responsibilities relating to product certification: Requirements for product certification accreditation body

262Requirements for product certification accreditation body

  1. The chief executive must, by notice, specify—

  2. the minimum frequency of audits that the product certification accreditation body must conduct on accredited product certification bodies; and
    1. any other matters that the chief executive considers necessary or appropriate.

      1. The chief executive may, by notice, specify certifications of building products or building methods provided by persons outside New Zealand that are to be treated as product certifications for the purposes of this subpart.

      2. Subsection (2) applies only if the chief executive is satisfied that the building products or building methods concerned meet the prescribed criteria and standards for certification.

      3. A notice under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      Notes
      • Section 262(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
      • Section 262(2): amended, on , by section 62(1) of the Building (Building Products and Methods, Modular Components, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 21).
      • Section 262(2): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
      • Section 262(3): amended, on , by section 62(2) of the Building (Building Products and Methods, Modular Components, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 21).
      • Section 262(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).