BUILDING CONTROL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20440, 28 December 1940, Page 11

BUILDING CONTROL

STATE RESTRICTIONS REGULATIONS ISSUED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Emergency regulations, called the Building Emergency Regulations 1939 Amendment No. 1, have been passed by the Executive Council requiring that no local authority shall issue a permit for any constructional work which will require the use of more than half a ton of structural steel or the estimated cost of which building exceeds £2OOO unless the precedent consent of the building controller has been obtained.

Further, every local authority is required to furnish to the building controller monthly copies of all building permits which have been issued. The Minister of Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, in making this announcement, said; that conditions in the building trade since the declaration of war had been difficult and the combination of circumstances in relation to man-power as well as the supply of materials had now made it necessary for these regulations. In times of emergency labour and materials should be utilised to the best advantage of the community and these regulations had been passed with the idea of co-ordinating private and Government building activity so that the services of the building trade might be utilised to the full.