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14C: Responsibilities of owner-builder
or “The owner-builder must make sure their building work follows the agreed plans and rules.”

You could also call this:

“The person who makes building plans must make sure their work follows the rules for safe buildings.”

A designer is someone who makes plans and instructions for building work or gives advice about following the building code. If you are a designer, you have an important job to do. You need to make sure that the plans, instructions, or advice you give are good enough for the building work to follow the building code. This means that if builders follow your plans or advice correctly, the finished building will meet all the rules in the building code.

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Next up: 14E: Responsibilities of builder

or “Builders must follow rules to make sure buildings are safe and meet all the requirements.”

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Building Act 2004
Preliminary provisions
14D: Responsibilities of designer

Part 1 Preliminary provisions
Outline of responsibilities under this Act

14DResponsibilities of designer

In subsection (2), designer means a person who prepares plans and specifications for building work or who gives advice on the compliance of building work with the building code.
A designer is responsible for ensuring that the plans and specifications or the advice in question are sufficient to result in the building work complying with the building code, if the building work were properly completed in accordance with those plans and specifications or that advice.

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