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Building Act 2004

Regulation of building practitioners - Licensing and disciplining of building practitioners - Searches of register

309: Search fees

You could also call this:

“You might need to pay a small amount of money to look up information in the special list.”

If you want to search the register, you might need to pay a fee. The person in charge of the register, called the Registrar, can ask you to pay for this search.

The amount you need to pay can be set in two ways. It might be written in the rules (called regulations), or the Registrar might decide how much it should be. But here’s an important thing to remember: the fee can’t be more than what it actually costs to do the search for you.

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Topics:

Housing and property > Home safety and repairs

308: When search constitutes interference with privacy of individual, or

“Searching someone's personal information without permission can be against the law and invade their privacy.”

310: Appointment of Registrar of Licensed Building Practitioners, or

“A boss must choose someone to keep track of people who are allowed to build things.”

Part 4 Regulation of building practitioners
Licensing and disciplining of building practitioners: Searches of register

309Search fees

The Registrar may charge a fee for searches of the register.
The fee may be prescribed by the regulations, or may be determined by the Registrar, and must be no greater than the cost of providing for the search of the register.