(1)  The Director may approve one or more Guides to Standards and Tolerances.

(2)  The Director may approve as a Guide to Standards and Tolerances a document that specifies either or both of the following:

(a) the quality and standards required in relation to residential building work;

(b) whether or not a building structure, or other object, created as a result of the carrying out of residential building work is defective.

(3)  The Director, by electronic means and any other means the Director considers necessary, must take all reasonable steps to ensure that copies of a Guide to Standards and Tolerances are publicly available.

(4)  The Director may rescind a Guide to Standards and Tolerances.

(5)  A Guide to Standards and Tolerances is not –

(a) a statutory rule for the purposes of the Rules Publication Act 1953 ; or

(b) subordinate legislation for the purposes of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992 .