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Building Act 2004 – Section 121 
Building Act 2004 – Section 121 

Updated 18 August 2008.

Part two subpart six of the Building Act 2004 (the Act) deals with dangerous buildings. As a part of the statutory regime territorial authorities can request advice from members of the New Zealand Fire Service who are notified to territorial authorities by the National Commander of the New Zealand Fire Service as competent to give such advice.

In accordance with section 121 of the Act I advise you that the following members of the New Zealand Fire Service are competent to give advice under section 121(2) of the Act:

Name

Position

Northland Fire Region

Michael George Lister

Assistant Fire Region Commander (Fire Safety)

Craig Bain

Fire Safety Officer

Auckland Fire Region

Glenn Andrew Menzies

Deputy Chief Fire Safety Officer (Fire Safety)

Frank Neville Trevarton

Senior Fire Safety Officer

Robert Bruce Watson

Senior Fire Safety Officer

Roy Warren

Senior Fire Safety Officer

Terence Michael Castle

Fire Safety Officer

Russell Gavin Dickson

Fire Safety Officer

Simon Kennedy Davis

Fire Engineer Manager

Ed Claridge

Fire Engineer

Bay-Waikato Fire Region

Brent Mortensen

Assistant Fire Region Commander

Gary John Talbot

Chief Fire Officer Hamilton

Kenneth Malcolm McKeagg

Fire Safety Officer

Stuart Ray Bootten

Senior Station Officer Rotorua

David Jenkins

Senior Fire Safety Officer

Western Fire Region

Murray Lindsay Kidd

Fire Safety Officer

Peter James Gallagher

Fire Safety Officer

John Arthur Hotter

Fire Safety Officer

Arapawa Fire Region

Robert Eric Dalton

Senior Fire Safety Officer

Henry Stechman

Deputy Chief Fire Officer

Colin John Clemens

Fire Safety Officer

Peter Fox

Fire Safety Officer

Clive Malcolm Hutchings

Fire Safety Officer

Anthony David Nightingale

Fire Safety Officer

Sydney Paul Wigzell

Fire Safety Officer

James Firestone

Fire Engineer

National Headquarters

Alan Merry

Principal Advisor Fire Risk Management

Transalpine Fire Region

Robert John Saunders

Fire Region Commander

Graeme Ashley Reid

Fire Safety Officer

Kevin Joseph Collins

Fire Safety Officer

Mark Andrew Thomas

Fire Safety Officer

Graham James Davies

Fire Safety Officer

Richard Joseph Herrick Hefford

Fire Safety Officer

Southern Fire Region

Stuart Leslie Rooney

Fire Region Commander

Russell Adrian Pearson

Fire Safety Officer

David Martin Seque

Chief Fire Officer

Please note that since 1 April 2005 I have notified territorial authorities of the persons competent to give advice under s121(2) of the Act by maintaining a list of such persons on the New Zealand Fire Service website. The list can be found on this web page: http://www3.fire.org.nz/cms.php?page=18348. And updates will be displayed here.

Should you have any queries regarding the above please contact our Legal Advisor Megan Yardley.

Mike Hall
National Commander

Building Reference Information relating to online data held on evacuation scheme status can be searched for on our website http://evacinfo.fire.org.nz

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