Building Act 2004
E457012
The Building Act 2004 is New Zealand’s primary legislation governing building work, setting performance standards and regulatory frameworks to ensure buildings are safe, healthy, and durable.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Building Act 2004 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4623623 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Building Act 2004 Context triple: [Hamilton City Council, appliesLaw, Building Act 2004]
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A.
Architects Act 1997
The Architects Act 1997 is a UK statute that regulates the architectural profession, including the protection of the title "architect" and the framework for professional registration and discipline.
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B.
Town and Country Planning Act 1990
The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is a key piece of UK legislation that consolidates and governs the modern system of land-use planning and development control in England and Wales.
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C.
Housing Act 1980
The Housing Act 1980 is a landmark UK law that introduced and defined the modern Right to Buy scheme, enabling many council tenants to purchase their homes at a discount.
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D.
Municipal Structures Act
The Municipal Structures Act is a South African law that defines the types, powers, and internal arrangements of municipalities, providing the framework for local government structures across the country.
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E.
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009
The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 is a UK law that reformed local government structures and powers, including enabling the creation of combined authorities such as the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Building Act 2004 Target entity description: The Building Act 2004 is New Zealand’s primary legislation governing building work, setting performance standards and regulatory frameworks to ensure buildings are safe, healthy, and durable.
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A.
Architects Act 1997
The Architects Act 1997 is a UK statute that regulates the architectural profession, including the protection of the title "architect" and the framework for professional registration and discipline.
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B.
Town and Country Planning Act 1990
The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is a key piece of UK legislation that consolidates and governs the modern system of land-use planning and development control in England and Wales.
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C.
Housing Act 1980
The Housing Act 1980 is a landmark UK law that introduced and defined the modern Right to Buy scheme, enabling many council tenants to purchase their homes at a discount.
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D.
Municipal Structures Act
The Municipal Structures Act is a South African law that defines the types, powers, and internal arrangements of municipalities, providing the framework for local government structures across the country.
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E.
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009
The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 is a UK law that reformed local government structures and powers, including enabling the creation of combined authorities such as the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Zealand statute
ⓘ
primary building legislation ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
MBIE Building System Performance branch
NERFINISHED
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Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
facilitate efficient and effective building control processes
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protect occupants and users of buildings ⓘ protect other property from damage due to building failure ⓘ |
| allows | certain exempt building work without consent ⓘ |
| contains |
offence and penalty provisions
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provisions on building levy ⓘ provisions on building practitioners licensing ⓘ provisions on building product certification ⓘ provisions on change of use of buildings ⓘ provisions on dangerous and insanitary buildings ⓘ provisions on earthquake-prone buildings ⓘ provisions on subdivision of buildings ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| enactedBy | New Zealand Parliament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
MBIE chief executive
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
regional authorities ⓘ territorial authorities ⓘ |
| establishes |
accredited building consent authorities
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building consent system ⓘ building warrant of fitness regime ⓘ code compliance certificate regime ⓘ licensed building practitioners regime ⓘ national building code framework ⓘ |
| governs | building work in New Zealand ⓘ |
| imposesDutiesOn |
builders
ⓘ
building consent authorities ⓘ building owners ⓘ designers ⓘ regional authorities ⓘ territorial authorities ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | New Zealand ⓘ |
| providesFor |
New Zealand Building Code
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
determinations by MBIE on building disputes ⓘ |
| purpose |
to ensure buildings are durable
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to ensure buildings are healthy ⓘ to ensure buildings are safe ⓘ to promote sustainable building practices ⓘ to provide for the regulation of building work ⓘ to set performance standards for buildings ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Building Regulations 1992
NERFINISHED
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New Zealand Building Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | Building Act 1991 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requires | building consents for most building work ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Building Act 2004 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Building Act 2004 Description of subject: The Building Act 2004 is New Zealand’s primary legislation governing building work, setting performance standards and regulatory frameworks to ensure buildings are safe, healthy, and durable.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.