New Zealand Legislation: Acts

19 How compliance with building code is established

• (1) A building consent authority must accept any or all of the following as establishing compliance with the building code:

  • (a) compliance with regulations referred to in section 20:

  • (b) compliance with the provisions of a compliance document:

  • (c) a determination to that effect made by the chief executive under subpart 1 of Part 3:

  • (d) a current product certificate issued under section 269, if any relevant condition in that product certificate is met:

  • (e) to the extent that compliance with a requirement imposed by regulations made under the Electricity Act 1992 or the Gas Act 1992 is compliance with any particular provisions of the building code, a certificate issued under any of those regulations to the effect that any energy work complies with those requirements.

  (2) In considering whether something complies with the building code, a building consent authority or, as the case may be, a regional authority—

  • (a) must have regard to any relevant warning issued, and ban declared, under section 26(2); and

  • (b) may have regard to any guidance information published by the chief executive under section 175.

  Compare: 1991 No 150 s 50

  Section 19(1): amended, on 14 April 2005, by section 16(2)(b) of the Building Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 31).