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Building Act 2004

Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation - Responsibilities relating to product certification - Registration of product certification bodies

267C: Suspension of registration of PCB

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"What happens if a product certification body's registration is suspended"

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If you are registered as a product certification body, your registration will be automatically suspended if your accreditation is suspended under section 264. The chief executive can suspend your registration if you no longer meet the criteria for registration in section 267A or if you have failed to comply with any product certification scheme rules. You will be notified in writing and given a chance to be heard before your registration is suspended.

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Part 3Regulatory responsibilities and accreditation
Responsibilities relating to product certification: Registration of product certification bodies

267CSuspension of registration of PCB

  1. A person’s registration as a product certification body is automatically suspended if their accreditation is suspended under section 264.

  2. The chief executive may suspend a person’s registration as a product certification body if satisfied that they—

  3. no longer meet the criteria for registration in section 267A; or
    1. have failed to comply with any product certification scheme rules.

      1. However, if—

      2. regulations made for the purposes of section 267A(1)(b) or (c) are amended; and
        1. a person ceases to meet the criteria in section 267A solely as a result of those amendments,—

            1. the chief executive cannot suspend their registration under subsection (2)(a) unless 3 months have elapsed since those amendments came into force.

          1. Before suspending a person’s registration under subsection (2), the chief executive must—

          2. notify them in writing of the intention to do so and the reasons for it; and
            1. give them a reasonable opportunity to be heard.

              1. If a person’s registration is suspended under subsection (1) or (2), the chief executive must—

              2. notify them in writing of the suspension (including the reasons for it and the effect of section 267E(1)(b) (if applicable)); and
                1. update the register accordingly; and
                  1. take all reasonable steps to notify the proprietors for whom the person is the responsible PCB.

                    Notes
                    • Section 267C: inserted, on , by section 66 of the Building (Building Products and Methods, Modular Components, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 21).