Building (Infringement Offences, Fees, and Forms) Amendment Regulations 2014
2014/362
Building (Infringement Offences, Fees, and Forms) Amendment Regulations 2014
Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 1st day of December 2014
Present:
The Right Hon John Key presiding in Council
Pursuant to section 402 of the Building Act 2004, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister for Building and Housing, makes the following regulations.
Contents
Regulations
1 Title
These regulations are the Building (Infringement Offences, Fees, and Forms) Amendment Regulations 2014.
2 Commencement
These regulations come into force on 1 January 2015.
3 Principal regulations
These regulations amend the Building (Infringement Offences, Fees, and Forms) Regulations 2007 (the principal regulations).
4 Schedule 1 replaced
Replace Schedule 1 with the Schedule 1 set out in the Schedule of these regulations.
Schedule |
Schedule 1
Infringement offences and feesrr 3, 4
Provision of Building Act 2004 Description of offence Fee ($) General building offences s 40 Failing to comply with the requirement that building work must be carried out in accordance with a building consent 1,000 s 42 Failing to apply for a certificate of acceptance for urgent building work as soon as practicable after completion of building work 500 s 85(1) Person who is not licensed building practitioner carrying out restricted building work without supervision of licensed building practitioner with appropriate licence 750 s 85(2)(a) Licensed building practitioner carrying out restricted building work without appropriate licence 500 s 85(2)(b) Licensed building practitioner supervising restricted building work without appropriate licence 500 s 101 Failing to comply with the requirement to obtain a compliance schedule 250 s 108(5)(aa) Failing to supply territorial authority with a building warrant of fitness 250 s 108(5)(a) Failing to display a building warrant of fitness required to be displayed 250 s 108(5)(b) Displaying a false or misleading building warrant of fitness 1,000 s 108(5)(c) Displaying a building warrant of fitness other than in accordance with section 108 1,000 s 116B(1)(a) Using, or knowingly permitting the use of, a building for a use for which it is not safe or not sanitary 1,500 s 116B(1)(b) Using, or knowingly permitting the use of, a building that has inadequate means of escape from fire 2,000 s 124 Failing to comply with a notice, within the time stated in the notice, requiring work to be carried out on a dangerous, earthquake-prone, or insanitary building 1,000 s 128A(2) Using or occupying a building, or permitting another person to do so, contrary to a territorial authority's hoarding, fence, or notice 2,000 s 168 Failing to comply with a notice to fix 1,000 s 314(1) Person holding himself or herself out as being licensed to do or supervise building work or building inspection work while not being so licensed 500 s 362D(4) Failing to provide prescribed disclosure information 500 Failing to provide prescribed checklist 500 s 362F(4) Failing to have a written contract as prescribed 500 s 362T(4) Failing to provide prescribed information or documentation to specified persons 500 s 363 Using, or permitting use of, building having no consent or code compliance certificate or certificate for public use for premises for public use 1,500 s 367 Wilfully obstructing, hindering, or resisting a person executing powers conferred under the Act or its regulations 500 s 368 Wilfully removing or defacing a notice published under the Act or inciting another person to do so 500 Dam safety offences s 134C Dam owner failing to classify a dam 500 s 138 Dam owner failing to comply with a direction from a regional authority to have a classification re-audited and submitted 250 s 140 Dam owner failing to prepare, or to arrange the preparation of, a dam safety assurance programme and submit it for audit 500 s 145 Dam owner failing to comply with a direction from a regional authority to have a dam safety assurance programme re-audited and submitted 250 s 150(4)(a) Dam owner knowingly failing to display a dam compliance certificate required to be displayed 250 s 150(4)(b) Dam owner displaying a false or misleading dam compliance certificate 1,000 s 150(4)(c) Dam owner displaying a dam compliance certificate otherwise than in accordance with section 150 1,000 s 154 Dam owner failing to comply with a notice, within the time stated in the notice, requiring work to be carried out on a dangerous dam 2,000
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.
These regulations, which come into force on 1 January 2015, amend the Building (Infringement Offences, Fees, and Forms) Regulations 2007 (the principal regulations) to update the infringement offences and fees prescribed in Schedule 1.
The regulations prescribe 4 new infringement offences in relation to—
section 108(5)(aa) of the Building Act 2004 (the Act) for failing to supply a territorial authority with a building warrant of fitness as required by that section:
section 362D of the Act for failing to provide a prescribed checklist or the prescribed disclosure information to a client before entering into a contract for residential building work:
section 362F of the Act for failing to have a written contract for residential building work where the price is $30,000 or more:
section 362T of the Act for failing to provide information or documentation that is required to be provided to a client and a territorial authority on completion of residential building work.
In addition, the regulations make 2 consequential changes as a result of the Building Amendment Act 2013. The offences previously prescribed in sections 128 and 134 of the Act are now prescribed in sections 128A(2) and 134C respectively. These regulations update the principal regulations to reflect those changes.
Regulatory impact statement
The Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment produced regulatory impact statements in July and November 2010 to help inform the decisions taken by the Government relating to the contents of this instrument.
Copies of these regulatory impact statements can be found at—
Date of notification in Gazette: 4 December 2014.
These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.