Building Control Authority
Roles & Responsibilities of our BCA
BCAs perform the following functions:
- issue building consents (except consents subject to a waiver or modification)
- inspect building work for which it has granted a building consent
- issue notices to fix
- issue code compliance certificates
- issue compliance schedules
- when issuing building consents, a BCA must provide to the New Zealand Fire Service Commission a copy of every application for a building consent of a kind specified by a Gazette notice.
A territorial authority issues:
- project information memoranda
- building consents where the consent is subject to a waiver or modification of the Building Code
- certificates of acceptance
- certificates for public use
- compliance schedules (and amends compliance schedules).
A territorial authority also:
- follows up and resolves notices to fix
- administers annual building warrants of fitness
- enforces the provisions relating to annual building warrants of fitness
- enforces provisions relating to residential pools
- decides the extent to which buildings must comply with the Building Code when they are altered, the use is changed, or their specified intended life changes
- performs functions relating to dangerous or insanitary buildings
- performs functions relating to earthquake-prone buildings
- performs building safety evaluations following an earthquake or other emergency
- determines whether building work is exempt under Schedule 1 from requiring a building consent
- carries out any other functions and duties specified in the Building Act 2004.
