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Building Act 2004

Review of building code

Schedule 2: Buildings in respect of which requirement for provision of access and facilities for persons with disabilities applies

You could also call this:

“Buildings that must be accessible for people with disabilities”

You need to make sure that certain buildings have access and facilities for people with disabilities. This applies to many different types of buildings that the public uses.

These buildings include places like airports, train stations, public toilets, banks, childcare centres, government offices, courthouses, hotels, hospitals, schools, libraries, churches, theatres, shops, restaurants, petrol stations, and car parks. It also includes factories where more than 10 people work.

The list covers almost every kind of building that you might visit or use in your daily life. This is to make sure that people with disabilities can access and use these buildings just like everyone else.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM309341.

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Schedule 1: Building work for which building consent not required, or

“List of building work you can do without getting a building consent”

Schedule 3: Further provisions applying to Board, or

“Rules for how the Building Practitioners Board works and what its members must do”

2Buildings in respect of which requirement for provision of access and facilities for persons with disabilities applies

The buildings in respect of which the requirement for the provision of access and facilities for persons with disabilities apply are, without limitation, as follows:

land, sea, and air passenger transport terminals and facilities and interchanges, whether wholly on land or otherwise:

public toilets wherever situated:

banks:

childcare centres and kindergartens:

day-care centres and facilities:

commercial buildings and premises for business and professional purposes, including computer centres:

central, regional, and local government offices and facilities:

courthouses:

Police stations:

hotels, motels, hostels, halls of residence, holiday cabins, groups of pensioner flats, boarding houses, guest houses, and other premises providing accommodation for the public:

hospitals, whether public or private, and rest homes:

medical and dental surgeries, and medical and paramedical and other primary health care centres:

educational institutions, including public and private primary, intermediate, and secondary schools, universities, Te Pūkenga—New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology and its Crown entity subsidiaries, and other tertiary institutions:

libraries, museums, art galleries, and other cultural institutions:

churches, chapels, and other places of public worship:

places of assembly, including auditoriums, theatres, cinemas, halls, sports stadiums, conference facilities, clubrooms, recreation centres, and swimming baths:

shops, shopping centres, and shopping malls:

restaurants, bars, cafeterias, and catering facilities:

showrooms and auction rooms:

public laundries:

petrol and service stations:

funeral parlours:

television and radio stations:

car parks, parking buildings, and parking facilities:

factories and industrial buildings where more than 10 persons are employed:

other buildings, premises, or facilities to which the public are to be admitted, whether for free or on payment of a charge.


	Compare: 1991 No 150 s 47A(4)

Notes

Schedule 2 paragraph (m): amended, on 25 September 2020, by clause 4(2) of the Education (Name Change for NZIST) Order 2020 (LI 2020/260).
Schedule 2 paragraph (m): amended, on 1 April 2020, by section 78(1) of the Education (Vocational Education and Training Reform) Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 1).