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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

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