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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Reasons to be nervous about the Govt's building changes
Description: This move by the Government to change who is ultimately liable for repairs to defective building work on new houses up to three-storeys high and renovation jobs worth more than $100,000 makes me very nervous.  At the moment, all parties involved in a project are jointly liable for any defects and repairs.  Which means, sometimes, if one of them can’t pay or if they’ve all gone under since the work was done, the local council that consented the work ends up carrying the cost to fix things up. The Government doesn’t want that...