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Building Act 2004

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

279: Effect of appointment

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“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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