Building Code Definitions
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access route | |
accessiblehaving features to permit use by people with disabilities | |
accessible routean access route usable by people with disabilities. It shall be a continuous route that can be negotiated unaided by a wheelchair user. The route shall extend from street boundary or carparking area to those spaces within the building required to be accessible to enable people with disabilities to carry out normal activities and processes within the building | |
adequatemeans adequate to achieve the objectives of the building code | |
adjacent building | |
alterin relation to a building, includes to rebuild, re-erect, repair, enlarge and extend; and ALTERATION has a corresponding meaning | |
amenity | |
approved temperature datameans the temperature data contained in A I Tomlinson and J Sansom, Temperature Normals for New Zealand for the period 1961 to 1990 (NIWA, ISBN 0478083343) | |
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backcountry hutmeans a building that— (a) is located on land that is administered by the Department of Conservation for conservation, recreational, scientific, or other related purposes, including any land administered under any of the following: (i) the Conservation Act 1987: (ii) the National Parks Act 1980: (iii) the Reserves Act 1977; and (b) is intended to provide overnight shelter to any person who may visit and who carries his or her own food, bedding, clothing, and outdoor equipment; and (c) contains only basic facilities, which may include (but are not limited to) any or all of the following: (i) sleeping platforms or bunks: (ii) mattresses: (iii) food preparation surfaces: (iv) appliances for heating: (v) appliances for cooking: (vi) toilets; and (d) has been certified by the Director-General as being in a location that wheelchair users are unlikely to be able to visit; and (e) is intended to be able to sleep— (i) no more than 20 people in its backcountry hut sleeping area; and (ii) no more than 40 people in total; and (f) does not contain any connection, except by radiocommunications, to a network utility operator | |