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amendments for ‘the Contractor’ to still exist after 10 years, or have any money, or
have insurance against such claims, or have insurance that survives for 10 years.
141. But it gets worse. By what must be a deliberately deceptive and misleading ploy, a CCC
is no longer a CCC. In many, many cases involving ‘leaks,’ rot and structural defects in
houses and apartments, the only thing that has saved the owners from complete and utter
financial ruin has been the fact that the ‘local Council’ has been ‘the last man standing.’
By getting rid of the ‘CCC,’ that is, the ‘Code Compliance Certificate,’ and replacing it
with a ‘CCC,’ that is, a ‘Consent Completion Certificate,’ the Government has
manoeuvred the ‘local Councils’ largely out of being ‘last man standing.’ In future,
affected owners will face financial ruin, period.
142. This ‘review and reform of the Building Act’ is incompetence and deceit rolled into one,
with the crazy mindset of ‘red tape’ removal thrown in, the type of mindset which
largely led to all of the defective house construction in the first place. The lunatics are
running the asylum, and no one charged with a fiduciary duty to protect the interests of
the people of New Zealand is doing anything to stop it. Extracts from my submission to
the Local Government and Environment Committee on the Building Amendment Bill
(No 4) are attached in Appendix 12.
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