401ARegulations: building consents and consent completion certificates

1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations that—

2. define low-risk building work including by specifying any or all of the following: the nature of the building work, the circumstances in which it may be carried out, or the conditions for carrying it out:
3. define simple residential building work:
4. define commercial building work:
5. prescribe types or categories of commercial building work for which a commercial building consent is required:
6. prescribe types or categories of commercial building work for which an application for either a commercial building consent or a standard building consent may be made:
7. prescribe those aspects of plans and specifications accompanying an application for a simple residential building consent that must be considered by a building consent authority when deciding whether to grant the consent:
8. for the purpose of a determination by a building consent authority whether to issue a consent completion certificate in respect of simple residential building work, prescribe—
   1. the maximum inspections that are required; and
   2. the nature of those inspections:
9. prescribe the criteria for determining the risk profile of a commercial building:
10. prescribe the matters that must be included in a quality assurance system, including prescribing different matters for different types or categories of commercial building work:
11. define safety system.

12. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Notes

• Section 401A: inserted, on 13 March 2012, by section 81 of the Building Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 23).
• Section 401A(2): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).