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Identify and explain the scope of regulatory requirements applying to
landscape work
Level
4
Credits
5
Purpose
This unit standard is for people working, or intending to work, in landscaping.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe the general
scope of Acts, Regulations, and Orders applying to landscape work; describe
the work of Local Authorities in relation to landscape work; and describe the
function of Standard Specifications, Guides, and Compliance Documents as
they apply to the landscape industry.
Subfield
Horticulture
Domain
Landscape
Status
Registered
Status date
25 September 2006
Date version published
25 September 2006
Planned review date
31 December 2011
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0032
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to the:
Building Act 2004
Building (Forms) Regulations 2004
Employment Relations Act 2000
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992
Fencing Act 1978
Resource Management Act 1991
Property Law Act 1952
Fair Trading Act 1986
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Consumer Guarantees Act 1993
Construction Contracts Act 2002
Local Government Act 2002
Holidays Act 2003
Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996
Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941
2
A Land Information Memorandum (LIM) is a report prepared by the Council at your
request. It provides official address, legal description, area of site and unit/flat
number as appropriate; information on special land features or characteristics
including potential avulsion (removal of land by water action), falling debris,
subsidence, slippage, alluvion (the deposition of silt from flooding), inundation
(flooding), and erosion.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Describe the general scope of Acts, Regulations, and Orders applying to landscape work.
Performance criteria
1.1
The general scope and intentions of Acts and Regulations applying to
landscape construction work are described.
Range
Building Act 2004, Building (Forms) Regulations 2004, Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992, Fencing Act 1978, Resource
Management Act 1991, Construction Contracts Act 2002, Soil
Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941.
1.2
The general scope and intentions of the Employment Relations Act 2000 are
described.
1.3
The general scope and intentions of Acts applying to landscape activities are
described.
Range
1.4
Property Law Act 1952, Fair Trading Act 1986, Consumer
Guarantees Act 1993.
The general scope and requirements of Tree Preservation Orders are
described.
Element 2
Describe the work of Local Authorities in relation to landscape work.
Performance criteria
2.1
The role of Local Authorities in administering Acts, Regulations, and Orders is
described.
2.2
The general scope and intent of a District Plan is described.
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2.3
The general procedure for obtaining resource consent is listed in order of tasks
to be completed.
2.4
The procedure for obtaining consent to build is listed in order of tasks to be
completed.
2.5
The advisory role of Local Authorities in relation to landscape work is defined.
Range
exemptions under the Building Act 2004, special requirements
imposed on sites, Land Information Memoranda.
Element 3
Describe the function of Standard Specifications, Guides, and Compliance Documents as
they apply to the landscape industry.
Performance criteria
3.1
The rationale for development of Standard Specifications is explained, and their
uses in landscape work are identified.
Range
3.2
Guides and approved documents are explained in terms of the ways in which
they assist the achievement of standards in landscape work.
Range
3.3
standards of materials and work, guidelines for design work, basis
for control and supervision of work.
provision of acceptable solutions, provision of test and calculation
methods to measure compliance with standards, alternative
solutions.
Organisations involved in the development of standards and specifications are
explained in terms of their roles.
Range
Standards Association of New Zealand, Building Research
Authority of New Zealand, Building Industry Authority, International
Standards Organisation.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority, or an inter-institutional body
with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from
assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
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Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation www.primaryito.ac.nz if you
wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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