Building (Product Certification) Amendment Regulations 2021

2021/253

Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Building (Product Certification) Amendment Regulations 2021

Patsy Reddy, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 13th day of September 2021

Present:
The Right Hon Jacinda Ardern presiding in Council

These regulations are made under section 402(1) of the Building Act 2004—

(a)

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

(b)

on the recommendation of the Minister for Building and Construction.

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Building (Product Certification) Amendment Regulations 2021.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 14 October 2021.

3 Principal regulations

These regulations amend the Building (Product Certification) Amendment Regulations 2019.

4 Regulation 2 amended (Commencement)

In regulation 2(2), replace “2021” with “2022”.

Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

Together with the Building Act 2004, the Building (Product Certification) Regulations 2008 (the principal regulations) provide the legislative basis for the CodeMark scheme in New Zealand, which is a building product certification scheme administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment. In 2019, the Building (Product Certification) Amendment Regulations 2019 (the 2019 amendment regulations) were made to amend the principal regulations.

Regulations 9 and 10(3) of the 2019 amendment regulations relate to conditions that must be met in order for product certification bodies to accept test reports from a testing laboratory in respect of a building method or product, or to test building methods or products at a testing laboratory. Currently, they come into force on 1 November 2021. These regulations extend that date to 1 November 2022.

These regulations come into force on 14 October 2021.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 16 September 2021.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.