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437: Transitional provision for issue of certificate of acceptance
or “A rule about how you can get a special paper for building work done without permission in the past”
You could also call this:

“Old building safety papers still work with the new rules”

When this part of the law starts, some changes happen to old documents. If you had a code compliance certificate from the old law, it now works like it was given under section 95 of the new law. The same goes for compliance schedules - they now work as if they were given under section 102 of the new law.

If someone was allowed by the local council to check, take care of, and report on special systems mentioned in a compliance schedule before this law started, they can keep doing that job. But the council can stop letting them do it if they want to.

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Transitional provisions: Other transitional provisions

438Transitional provision for code compliance certificates and compliance schedules issued under former Act

  1. On the commencement of this section,—

  2. a code compliance certificate issued under section 43 of the former Act has effect as if it had been issued under section 95 of this Act; and
    1. a compliance schedule issued under section 44 of the former Act has effect as if it had been issued under section 102 of this Act.

      1. Repealed

      2. A person who immediately before the commencement of this section was accepted by a territorial authority as being qualified to carry out the inspection, maintenance, and reporting procedures required for a specified system stated in a compliance schedule continues to be accepted until the authority withdraws its acceptance.

      3. Repealed

      4. Repealed
      Notes
      • Section 438(2): repealed, on , by section 87 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
      • Section 438(3): replaced, on , by section 26 of the Building Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 31).
      • Section 438(4): repealed, on , by section 87 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
      • Section 438(5): repealed, on , by section 87 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).