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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

280: Costs may be recovered from territorial authority

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“ The Minister can ask the territorial authority to pay back money spent on doing the authority's job. ”

If the Minister or someone they appoint does work that a territorial authority should have done, they can get the money back from that territorial authority. This work is related to section 277 of the Building Act 2004.

The Minister can get back all the costs, charges, and expenses they had to pay for doing this work. They can do this in two ways. They can ask the territorial authority to pay them back directly. Or, if the Minister owes the territorial authority any money, they can take the amount off what they owe.

This rule applies to all the money spent by the Minister or the person they appointed to do the territorial authority’s job. It doesn’t matter if the money was spent on doing tasks, carrying out duties, or using the powers that the territorial authority usually has.

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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

280Costs may be recovered from territorial authority

  1. This section applies to all costs, charges, and expenses incurred by—

  2. the Minister for the purposes of section 277; or
    1. a person appointed under that section in performing any functions or duties, or exercising any powers, of a territorial authority.

      1. The costs, charges, and expenses to which this section applies—

      2. may be recovered from the territorial authority concerned as a debt due to the Minister; or
        1. may be deducted from any money payable to that territorial authority by the Minister.

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