Clause 20

by deleting the words “order the owner” in subsection (1) and substituting the words “order an owner”;

by deleting the word “qualified” in subsection (1)(a);

by deleting the full‑stop at the end of paragraph (d) of subsection (1) and substituting a semi‑colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:“(e)to suspend the operation or use of any part of the building by any occupier or other person until after the Commissioner of Building Control otherwise approves.”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsections:“(1A) In addition, the Commissioner of Building Control may give an order under subsection (1) to do any thing under subsection (1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) in respect of an exterior feature of a building or a fixed installation, or any building product used in a building, that the Commissioner of Building Control reasonably believes is necessary for either or both the following purposes:

to prevent safety incidents involving the exterior feature or fixed installation in the future;

to eliminate or minimise a safety risk posed by the use in the building of the building product.(1B) Where an order under subsection (1) is given to the owner or owners of 2 or more adjoining or connected buildings, a power to order the doing of anything under subsection (1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) includes —

a power to order the respective owners of the buildings to jointly appoint the same qualified person or persons to carry out (at the owners’ cost) an inspection of each of the buildings, where subsection (1)(a) is concerned; and

a power to order the respective owners of the buildings to jointly do that thing under subsection (1)(b), (c), (d) or (e) in relation to each of those buildings.(1C) In the case of an order under subsection (1) in respect of a building with 2 or more owners, each of those owners is jointly and severally responsible —

to take such steps as are necessary to comply with the order; and

to bear all costs incurred to comply with the order.”; and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (7), the following subsections:“(8) For the purposes of subsection (1A), it does not matter that the building product was used in a building before the building product became the subject of a reportable safety risk.(9) Where a building in respect of which the Commissioner of Building Control is to exercise his powers under this section is a fixed installation, any reference in this section to the owner of a building is a reference to the fixed installation owner of that fixed installation.”.