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Legislation and regulations

There are some important pieces of law underlying the LBP scheme. You can find some information and links to them on this page.

Legislation

The LBP scheme is provided for by the Building Act 2004. The Act sets out a framework for most building regulation in New Zealand, but Part 4 of the Act specifically relates to the LBP Scheme.

Read the Building Act 2004:

Building Act 2004(external link)

These are the specific parts of the Act that apply:

Part 4: Regulation of building practitioners(external link)
Schedule 3: Further provisions applying to Board(external link)

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Legislation and regulations

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