Compliance Schedules
A compliance schedule lists the specified systems within a building and the procedures required to keep them in good working order, helping to ensure the building is safe and healthy for people to enter, occupy or work in.
A compliance schedule is required for a building that:
- is not wholly a single household unit (for example, includes commercial and industrial buildings but not stand-alone houses) AND contains one or more specified systems (including cable cars)
- is wholly a single household unit AND has a cable car attached to it or servicing it.
If you require a copy of your compliance schedule please check the link below or contact building@codc.govt.nz
Compliance Schedules Online(Please use Chrome as your browser to view this link)
Online Form – Apply to amend a Compliance Schedule
Specified Systems
NOTE: The Specified Systems and Building Warrant of Fitness forms are available on the Southern Building Control Group forms page.
The Building Act defines a specified system as a system or feature that is:
- contained in, or attached to, a building
- contributes to the proper functioning of the building (for example, a sprinkler system)
- declared by the Governor-General, by Order in Council, to be a specified system for the purpose of this Act
- Includes a cable car.
Regulation 4 and Schedule 1 of the Building (Specified Systems, Change the Use, and Earthquake-prone Buildings) Regulations 2005 list the specified systems. They are:
- Automatic systems for fire suppression (for example, sprinkler systems).
- Automatic or manual emergency warning systems for fire or other dangers (other than a warning system for fire that is entirely within a household unit and serves only that unit).
- Electromagnetic or automatic doors or windows (for example, ones that close on fire alarm activation).
- Emergency lighting systems.
- Escape route pressurisation systems.
- Riser mains for use by fire services.
- Automatic backflow preventers connected to a potable water supply.
- Lifts, escalators, travellators, or other systems for moving people or goods within buildings.
- Mechanical ventilation or air conditioning systems.
- Building maintenance units providing access to exterior and interior walls of buildings.
- Laboratory fume cupboards.
- Audio loops or other assistive listening systems.
- Smoke control systems.
- Emergency power systems for, or signs relating to, a system or feature specified in any of clauses 1 to 13.
- Any or all of the following systems and features, so long as they form part of a building's means of escape from fire, and so long as those means also contain any or all of the systems or features specified in clauses 1 to 6, 9, and 13:
