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443: Approved building certifiers have until 31 May 2006 to apply to be registered as building consent authority
or “Building checkers must ask to become official building helpers before a special date.”
You could also call this:

“Certified building checkers can still approve buildings while becoming official authorities”

If you are an approved building certifier and you apply to be registered as a building consent authority by 31 May 2006, you can do something special during a certain time period. This time period starts when this law begins and ends on 30 November 2007. It’s called the transitional period.

During this transitional period, you can issue two types of documents for building work that had a building consent before this law started. You can give out either a building certificate under section 56 of the old law, or a code compliance certificate under section 95 of the new law.

This rule only applies to building work that already had a building consent before this part of the law came into effect. It gives you, as an approved building certifier, some flexibility in what kind of certificates you can issue during this change-over time.

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Next up: 445: What happens if approved building certifier does not apply to be registered as building consent authority by 31 May 2006

or “If a building certifier doesn't ask to be registered by a certain date, they can't take new jobs and must finish or pass on old ones.”
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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions: Other transitional provisions

444What happens if approved building certifier applies to be registered as building consent authority by 31 May 2006

  1. An approved building certifier who applies to be registered as a building consent authority by 31 May 2006 may, during the transitional period, issue either of the following in respect of building work for which a building consent was issued before the commencement of this section:

  2. a building certificate under section 56 of the former Act; or
    1. a code compliance certificate under section 95.

      1. In this section, transitional period means the period commencing on the date of commencement of this section and ending on 30 November 2007.