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Building Act 1975
sec.54Local government may rely on documents private certifier gives it for providing public access
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### sec.54 Local government may rely on documents private certifier gives it for providing public access
This section applies if—
under this Act, a private certifier gives a document to the local government for a building development application; and
under the Planning Act , section 264 , the local government must, or may, keep the document publicly available.
The local government may accept, and without further checking, rely and act on the document for the purpose of making the document publicly available.
s 54 prev s 54 amd 1978 No. 47 s 18 ; 1993 No. 70 s 804 sch
om 1998 No. 13 s 15
pres s 54 ins 2006 No. 36 s 5
amd 2009 No. 36 s 872 sch 2
sub 2016 No. 27 s 66
(sec.54-ssec.1) This section applies if— under this Act, a private certifier gives a document to the local government for a building development application; and under the Planning Act , section 264 , the local government must, or may, keep the document publicly available.
(sec.54-ssec.2) The local government may accept, and without further checking, rely and act on the document for the purpose of making the document publicly available.
- (a) under this Act, a private certifier gives a document to the local government for a building development application; and
- (b) under the Planning Act , section 264 , the local government must, or may, keep the document publicly available.