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439: Transitional provision for document used in establishing compliance with building code
or “Rules for how old building documents can still be used to show a building follows the rules”
You could also call this:

“This law explains how to handle old requests to become a building checker when the rules change.”

If you applied to become a building certifier before this new law started, but your application wasn’t finished or cancelled, the chief executive will look at it as if the old law was still in place.

If you appealed because you weren’t approved as a building certifier under the old law, and your appeal wasn’t finished when this new law started, your appeal will continue under the old law.

For these situations, and for section 441, the parts of the old law about becoming a building certifier (sections 51 to 53) will still work as if this new law hadn’t been made.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions: Other transitional provisions

440Transitional provision for applications for approval as building certifier under former Act

  1. An application for approval as a building certifier that has been made under section 51 of the former Act, but not determined or withdrawn, before the commencement of this section must, on that commencement, be considered and determined by the chief executive in all respects as if this Act had not been passed.

  2. An appeal against a decision to refuse to grant approval as a building certifier that has been commenced under section 52(9) of the former Act, but not completed, before the commencement of this section must be continued and completed in all respects under the former Act as if this Act had not been passed.

  3. For the purposes of this section and section 441, sections 51 to 53 of the former Act remain in force as if this Act had not been passed.