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Building Act 2004

Building - Special provisions for dangerous, affected, and insanitary buildings - Policy on dangerous and insanitary buildings

132A: Policy must take into account affected buildings

You could also call this:

“The rules say that when making plans about unsafe buildings, you need to think about buildings nearby that might be affected too.”

When a territorial authority makes a policy about dangerous and insanitary buildings, they must think about affected buildings too. If you’re not sure what affected buildings are, you can look that up in another part of this law.

If a territorial authority already has a policy, they need to change it to include affected buildings. They should do this when they next review their policy, or soon after. The law says they should do this within a reasonable time.

When the law talks about an “existing policy”, it means a policy that was already in place when this new rule about affected buildings came into effect.

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Part 2 Building
Special provisions for dangerous, affected, and insanitary buildings: Policy on dangerous and insanitary buildings

132APolicy must take into account affected buildings

  1. A policy under section 131 must take into account affected buildings.

  2. A territorial authority must amend an existing policy to take into account affected buildings at the latest within a reasonable period following the next review of its policy required under section 132(4).

  3. In subsection (2), existing policy means a policy existing at the date of this section coming into force.

Notes
  • Section 132A: inserted, on , by section 36 of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).