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133BH: Extension of designation
or “The law allows officials to make an emergency area last longer, but only once and for up to three years.”
You could also call this:

“The law explains how to end special rules for buildings in emergencies when they are no longer needed.”

You can end a designation for emergency management of buildings before its normal end date. The people who can extend the designation are also allowed to end it early. They can only do this if they believe it’s no longer in the public’s best interest to keep the designation going.

When ending a designation, you can choose to end it for the whole area or just a part of it. If you decide to end a designation, you need to tell people about it in the same way you would when you first make a designation.

To learn more about who can extend a designation, you can check section 133BH(1). For information on how designations normally end, look at section 133BF(2) or (3). If you want to know how to tell people about ending a designation, you can read section 133BE.

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Special provisions for buildings affected by emergency: Designation of areas for emergency management of buildings

133BITermination of designation

  1. Before a designation ends under section 133BF(2) or (3), it may be terminated by the persons who may extend the designation under section 133BH(1) in the circumstances set out in that subsection.

  2. A person must not terminate a designation unless the person is satisfied that the designation is no longer in the public interest.

  3. A termination of a designation may relate to the whole or a part of the designated area.

  4. A person who terminates a designation must notify the termination in accordance with section 133BE, and that section applies to the notification as if a reference in that section to a designation were a reference to the termination.

Notes
  • Section 133BI: inserted, on , by section 12 of the Building Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 27).