The Building (Dam Safety) Regulations 2008 that were due to come in to force on 1 July 2015 have been revoked under the Building (Dam Safety) Revocation Order 2015, with effect from 30 June 2015.
Information provided by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment states:
"The Government has decided that dam safety is better suited to being managed under the Resource Management Act (RMA) rather than the Building Act. The purpose of the ongoing maintenance of dams is to manage the impacts to life, infrastructure, and ecosystems should a dam failure occur. Ministers consider that this is more consistent with the purpose and principles of the RMA. Such an approach would also remove the current duplication between the use of resource consent to impose dam safety-related conditions, and the dam safety regulations. The latter (and the regulatory framework outlined in the Building Act) were seen by Ministers to be too onerous for the level of risk, and would impose excessive compliance costs on some dam owners.
As such, the Building (Dam Safety) Regulations 2008 have been revoked under the Building (Dam Safety) Revocation Order 2015, with effect from 30 June 2015. A Gazette notice announcing the commencement of the Building (Dam Safety) Revocation Order 2015 has now been published."