(1)
A building consent authority must have a system for ensuring that each employee and contractor who performs the authority’s building control functions by doing a technical job—
has an appropriate specified New Zealand qualification; or
is working towards having an appropriate specified New Zealand qualification within a reasonable time; or
has an appropriate foreign qualification recognised in New Zealand that is equivalent to a specified New Zealand qualification.
(2)
However, subclause (1) does not apply in respect of employees and contractors identified and recorded by the building consent authority’s system required by subclause (3).
(3)
The building consent authority must have a system for—
establishing circumstances of employees and contractors that would make it unreasonable and impractical for the authority to implement the system referred to in subclause (1) in respect of those employees and contractors; and
identifying and recording which employees and contractors have those circumstances.
Regulation 18: replaced, on 1 July 2017, by regulation 14 of the Building (Accreditation of Building Consent Authorities) Amendment Regulations 2017 (LI 2017/14).