What is a building surveyor?
9 What is a building surveyor?
A building surveyor is an entity that provides, has provided or proposes to provide—
a building certification service; or
an exemption assessment service; or
a works assessment service.
Works assessment service—see s 14A (2).
An exemption assessment service is the doing of exemption assessment work.
A building certification service is the doing of building certification work.
In this section:
building certification work means anything a building certifier may or must do under the Building Act 2004.
The Building Act 2004 requires a building surveyor to be appointed as a certifier before doing building certification work. It also restricts the building certification work certain building surveyors may do depending on their occupation class.
exemption assessment work means undertaking an exemption assessment under the Building Act 2004.
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