A Code Compliance Certificate is a formal statement from the Council ensuring that your building work complies with your building consent, as per Section 95 of the Building Act 2004.

If you don’t have this it may cause issues with your bank releasing final payments to your builder, increasing your insurance cover or selling your house.

Building owners, occupiers or controllers must ensure any building work that affects a public premises has a Code Compliance Certificate, Certificate for Public Use or Certificate of Acceptance before the site of the building work is used by members of the public.

How to Apply

You must apply using the Code Compliance Certificate Application Form after all building work in the consent has been completed. The application and supporting documents must be sent to ccc@wmk.govt.nz.

The application must include:

• Evidence of ownership – if they have changed from the building consent, if the consent is granted for a building on land subject to natural hazards or if the consent is granted for a building constructed on two or more allotments. Evidence of ownership can be a record of the title, a signed copy of the sales and purchase agreement or a document showing the full name of the legal owner e.g. Waimakariri District Council rates invoice
• Details of authority from the owner if an agent of an owner is applying for the certificate
• Details of the people who completed the work, including registration numbers if applicable
• Certificates relating to any gas fitting or prescribed electrical work completed

How Building Work is Certified

When an application is received the building consent file is audited to confirm if the Code Compliance Certificate (Form 7) can be issued.

If no application is made before the expiry of two years from the date the building consent was granted, the building consent authority must decide whether to issue the code compliance certificate. The building consent authority and the owner can agree to extend the timeframe above.

Section 94 (Building Act 2004) includes matters for the Council to consider before they can issue the Code Compliance Certificate.

During the audit process you may be asked to provide additional information as part of the audit process.

The Council has 20 working days to make the decision to issue or refuse to issue the Code Compliance Certificate, however the clock is suspended while waiting for further information to be received.

The Council (BCA) must issue a code compliance certificate if it is satisfied, on reasonable grounds that the building work complies with the building consent and if a compliance schedule is required, the specified systems in the building are capable or performing to the performance standards set out in the building consent. Building Performance has more information here.

Any development contributions that are required to be paid will need to be paid before the Code Compliance Certificate is issued.

The receipt of a CCC means the building work complies with the Building Consent, and signals the completion of the project.