2024/063: Authority requests engineering assessment for residential building identified as potentially earthquake-prone.

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This determination considers the territorial authority’s request, under Section 133AH of the Building Act 2004, to the building owner to provide an engineering assessment of a residential building identified as potentially earthquake-prone.

The determination discusses section 133AA and the types of residential buildings that the earthquake-prone building provisions of the Building Act apply to. 

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