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133AO: Owners of certain heritage buildings may apply for extension of time to complete seismic work
or “People who own old, important buildings can ask for more time to make them safer in earthquakes.”
You could also call this:

“Signs about earthquake safety must be put up on buildings that might not be safe in an earthquake”

If you own a building that has been identified as earthquake-prone, you need to know about EPB notices and EPB exemption notices. These are official documents that the local council (called a territorial authority) issues about your building’s earthquake risk.

When the council gives you one of these notices, they must put it up in an easy-to-see place on or near your building as soon as they can. Sometimes, they might ask you to put it up instead. If there’s an old notice that’s no longer correct, the council will take it down or let you remove it.

It’s important to keep these notices visible. If the notice falls off or you can’t read it anymore, you need to tell the council. They will then give you a new notice to put up in the same way as before.

You’re not allowed to take down these notices unless the law says you can. This rule helps make sure that everyone can see important information about the building’s earthquake risk.

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Next up: 133AQ: Territorial authority may assess information relating to earthquake-prone building status at any time

or “The council can check if a building is safe from earthquakes whenever they want”
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Special provisions for earthquake-prone buildings: Remediation of earthquake-prone buildings

133APEPB notices and EPB exemption notices to be attached to earthquake-prone buildings

  1. As soon as practicable after issuing an EPB notice or an EPB exemption notice for a building or a part of a building, the territorial authority must—

  2. attach, or require the owner of the building or part to attach, the notice in a prominent place on or adjacent to the building; and
    1. remove, or authorise the owner of the building or part to remove, any superseded EPB notice or EPB exemption notice that is attached on or adjacent to the building.

      1. If an EPB notice or an EPB exemption notice ceases to be attached in a prominent place on or adjacent to a building, or becomes illegible,—

      2. the owner of the building or the part of the building to which the notice relates must notify the territorial authority of that fact; and
        1. the territorial authority must issue a replacement notice; and
          1. subsection (1) applies to the replacement notice.

            1. Subsection (2) does not apply if the removal of the notice is authorised by or under this subpart.

            Notes
            • Section 133AP: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 22).