These regulations, which come into force on 22 August 2025, are made under the Building Act 2004 (the Act). They amend the Building (Accreditation of Building Consent Authorities) Regulations 2006 (the principal regulations).

The principal regulations prescribe the criteria and standards that an applicant must meet in order to be accredited as a Building Consent Authority (BCA) under the Act. These include the requirement under regulation 7(1) for a BCA to have policies and procedures in place for performing its building control functions. These policies and procedures must cover a number of specified matters, including (under regulation 7(2)(e)) the planning, performing, and managing of building work inspections.

These regulations amend the principal regulations to include the further requirement that the policies and procedures that a BCA has in place concerning building work inspections must ensure that it carries out a minimum of 80% of inspections within 3 working days after the date for inspection requested by the building owner or their agent.

These regulations insert new Part 3 into Schedule 1 of the principal regulations, setting out a transitional provision under which the changes made by these regulations do not apply to applications for accreditation made, or audits started, before 22 August 2025.