Canterbury Earthquake (Building Act) Amendment Order 2010

  • revoked
  • Canterbury Earthquake (Building Act) Amendment Order 2010: revoked (after expiring on the close of 16 September 2011), on 19 April 2016, pursuant to section 146(2) of the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Act 2016 (2016 No 14).

Reprint as at 19 April 2016

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Canterbury Earthquake (Building Act) Amendment Order 2010

(SR 2010/466)

Canterbury Earthquake (Building Act) Amendment Order 2010: revoked (after expiring on the close of 16 September 2011), on 19 April 2016, pursuant to section 146(2) of the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Act 2016 (2016 No 14).

Anand Satyanand, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 13th day of December 2010

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.

Pursuant to section 6 of the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act 2010, His Excellency the Governor-General makes the following order acting—

(a)

on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and

(b)

on the recommendation of the relevant Minister made in accordance with section 6(2) of that Act.

Order

1 Title

This order is the Canterbury Earthquake (Building Act) Amendment Order 2010.

2 Principal order amended

This order amends the Canterbury Earthquake (Building Act) Order 2010.

3 Commencement

This order comes into force on 23 December 2010.

4 Modifications to Schedule 1 of Act

Clause 19 is amended by revoking subclauses (3) to (6).

Rebecca Kitteridge,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This Order in Council, which comes into force on 23 December 2010, amends the Canterbury Earthquake (Building Act) Order 2010 (the principal order).

The principal order, amongst other things, made a number of modifications and extensions to Schedule 1 of the Building Act 2004 (the Schedule) to enable councils in the Canterbury region to take appropriate action in relation to dangerous buildings and related issues arising from the Canterbury earthquake.

This order revokes the modifications and extensions made to the Schedule except for the modification and extension relating to water heaters.

The modifications and extensions that this order revokes allowed the following building work to be done without a building consent:

  • the construction, installation, replacement, alteration, or removal of a retaining wall in a rural zone, provided that certain requirements were met:

  • the construction, alteration, or removal of a carport not exceeding 20 square metres:

  • the replacement or alteration of internal wall and floor linings and finishes in a dwelling:

  • the installation of thermal insulation (other than in-wall foam insulation) in an existing building (other than in a firewall or external wall of the building):

  • the making of a penetration no greater than 300 millimetres in diameter to enable the passage of pipes, cables, ducts, and the like through an existing building:

  • the demolition of all or part of a damaged building if detached and less than 3 storeys high:

  • the construction or alteration of a platform, bridge, or the like from which it is not possible for a person to fall more than 1.5 metres even if it collapses.

The provisions relating to the above building work no longer need to be in the principal order. Instead, they have, with some minor changes, been added permanently to the Schedule by the Building (Exempt Building Work) Order 2010.

This Order in Council is made under the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act 2010 and its effect, like that of the principal order, is temporary.

Reprints notes
1 General

This is a reprint of the Canterbury Earthquake (Building Act) Amendment Order 2010 that incorporates all the amendments to that order as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 Legal status

Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.

3 Editorial and format changes

Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

Greater Christchurch Regeneration Act 2016 (2016 No 14): section 146

Canterbury Earthquake (Building Act) Order 2010 (SR 2010/315): clause 3