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371B: Authorisation to issue infringement notice
or “This law explains who can give out tickets for building rule-breaking and how they get permission to do it.”
You could also call this:

“Rules about carrying and showing special papers for people who give out fines”

If you’re an enforcement officer allowed to give out infringement notices, you need to follow some rules. When you’re doing your job, you must carry two things with you: a special warrant and something that proves who you are. If someone asks to see these, you have to show them.

The warrant is a document that says you’re allowed to do your job. You get this warrant from your boss. When you stop being an enforcement officer, you have to give the warrant back to your boss.

Remember, these rules are there to make sure you’re doing your job properly and that people can trust that you’re really an enforcement officer.

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Next up: 371D: Offence to impersonate enforcement officer

or “You can get in trouble if you pretend to be someone who checks if buildings are safe.”
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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Other offences and criminal proceedings: Proceedings for infringement offences

371CConditions of authorisation

  1. An enforcement officer authorised under section 371B who exercises or purports to exercise the power to issue an infringement notice under section 372 must—

  2. carry on him or her—
    1. the warrant issued under section 371B(3); and
      1. evidence of his or her identity; and
      2. if required to do so, produce the warrant and evidence referred to in paragraph (a).

        1. An enforcement officer who holds a warrant issued under section 371B(3) must, on the termination of his or her appointment as an enforcement officer, surrender the warrant to the chief executive or the territorial authority, as the case may be.

        Notes
        • Section 371C: inserted, on , by section 62 of the Building Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 100).