9Prescribed criteria

9 Prescribed criteria

(1)  In this regulation –

building authority includes an authority allowing an accredited building practitioner to carry out or manage building work under the Building Act 2000 , and a building services licence.

(2)  For the purposes of section 29B(1)(a) of the Act, the prescribed criteria for a person to hold an owner builder permit are –

(a) the person is a natural person; and

(b) the person owns the premises in respect of which the work to be performed under the proposed permit relates; and

(c) the person intends, or another owner builder in respect of the premises intends, to carry out or manage the building work on the premises under the authority of the proposed permit, whether or not that work has commenced before the proposed permit is issued; and

(d) the person does not intend, or another owner of the premises does not intend, to perform permit demolition work, or notifiable demolition work, within the meaning of the Building Act 2016 , under the authority of the proposed permit; and

(e) [Regulation 9 Subregulation (2) amended by No. 39 of 2018, s. 54, Applied:01 Jan 2017] other than building work carried out or managed under a building authority, the person and each other owner of the premises, in aggregate, have not already carried out or managed building work, under an authorisation as an owner builder, on 2 or more buildings in the 10 years immediately before the person made the application for the proposed permit; and

(f) each other owner of the premises meets the prescribed criteria set out in paragraphs (a) , (b) , (c) , (d) and (e) .