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Building Act 2004
76Occupation and use of buildings
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76 Occupation and use of buildings
(a) the person occupies or uses, or allows someone else to occupy
or use, a building or part of a building; and
(b) the construction occupations registrar has not issued a certificate
of occupancy for the building or part of the building.
(a) the construction occupations registrar has issued a certificate of
occupancy for only a part of a building (the approved part); and
(b) the person occupies or uses, or allows someone else to occupy
or use, a part of the building for which no certificate of
occupancy has been issued; and
(c) the purpose of the use is not incidental to the use of the approved
part.
(3) An offence under this section is a strict liability offence.
building does not include a building for which a certificate of
regularisation has been issued.