Links to earlier legislation
Last updated: 9 September 2025
To check whether or not earlier building work on a property was covered by an exemption, you need to refer to the legislation in force at the time.
Schedule 1 of the Building Act 2004 has been issued and amended on the following dates:
- 26 November 2024
- 23 December 2023
- 7 September 2022
- 31 August 2020
- 1 July 2019
- 1 January 2017
- 28 November 2013
- 23 December 2010
- 16 October 2008
- 24 August 2004.
You can download these versions at www.legislation.govt.nz
Before the Building Act 2004 was enacted, the Building Act 1991 was the relevant legislation: its Third Schedule (Exempt buildings and building work) was similar to the current Act's Schedule 1.
You can download this from the New Zealand Legal Information Institute — nzlii.org