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Building Act 2004

Miscellaneous provisions - Other offences and criminal proceedings - Proceedings for infringement offences

374: Payment of infringement fees

You could also call this:

“Rules for paying fines for breaking building rules”

When you pay an infringement fee for a building-related offence, you need to know where to send the money. If a person from your local council gave you the infringement notice, you must pay the fee to that council. If the chief executive of the government department responsible for building matters (or someone they authorised) gave you the notice, you must pay the fee to the chief executive.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Other offences and criminal proceedings: Proceedings for infringement offences

374Payment of infringement fees

  1. The infringement fee paid in respect of an infringement offence must be paid,—

  2. in the case of an infringement notice issued by a person authorised by a territorial authority, to that territorial authority:
    1. in the case of an infringement notice issued by the chief executive or by a person authorised by the chief executive, to the chief executive.

      Notes
      • Section 374: replaced, on , by section 63 of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).