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278: Criteria for appointment or renewal of appointment
or “Rules for choosing someone to help when a local council can't do its job properly”
You could also call this:

“Explains what happens when someone is chosen to do a council's job”

If the Minister appoints someone under [section 277], that person gets all the jobs, responsibilities, and powers of a territorial authority. It’s as if the Building Act 2004 gave these things directly to that person, not through the appointment. The person can do everything a territorial authority can do under this law. The Building Act 2004 applies to this person just like it would to a territorial authority.

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Part 3 Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation
Miscellaneous responsibilities: Power of Minister to appoint person to perform functions and duties, or exercise powers, of territorial authority

279Effect of appointment

  1. If a person is appointed under section 277,—

  2. that person has all the functions, duties, and powers of a territorial authority as if they had been imposed or conferred on that person directly by this Act and not by the appointment; and
    1. this Act applies accordingly.

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