8Building work

8 Building work

8 Building work

(1) Building work means any work involved in, or involved in co-ordinating or supervising any work involved in—

(a) the construction of a building, or

(b) the making of alterations or additions to a building, or

(c) the repairing, renovation, decoration or protective treatment of a building.

(2) Work that relates to a building is taken to be building work if the work is residential building work under the Home Building Act 1989 or if it would be residential building work under that Act if the building were a dwelling.

(3) Work that relates to a dwelling is not building work if the work is not residential building work under the Home Building Act 1989, subject to subsection (4).

(4) Work that relates to a dwelling is not excluded from being building work under this Act by virtue of clause 2 (3) (a) of Schedule 1 to the Home Building Act 1989.

(5) The following work is not building work for the purposes of this Act—

(a) the supervision only of building work—

(i) by a person registered as an architect under the Architects Act 2003, or

(ii) by a person supervising owner-builder work (within the meaning of the Home Building Act 1989) for no reward or other consideration, or

(iii) by any other person, if all the building work is being done or supervised by the holder of a contractor licence under the Home Building Act 1989 authorising its holder to contract to do that work,

(b) demolition work,

(c) any work involved in the installation of any material that forms an upper layer or wearing surface of a floor (even if installed as a fixture) and that does not involve any structural changes to the floor, but not including work involved in the installation of floor tiles unless the regulations otherwise provide,