A Guide to Get Registered
4. Operate
Follow the plan and make appropriate records of all the required information, as soon as the registration has been accepted.
5. Verification
Get your business verified on time. FCPs will be done by a Council Environmental Health Officer. The time and day will be arranged with you prior however it is your responsibility to ensure that the business is verified on time. The officer will come on site to view the operations and go over sections of the plan in depth. Further verifications follow a timeframe depending on the outcome of the verification. New businesses must have an initial verification undertaken within 1 month of operating and existing businesses must be verified within 12 months.
6. Renew
Renew your registration before it expires; annually for FCPs or biennially for National Programmes.
7. Consider
When you are ready to get your business up and running you must consider whether you will need a building consent, resource consent or tradewaste consent and grease trap.
Go to our Duty Planner service information page for a resource consent
If you are undertaking any building, plumbing, drainage work you will require a building consent before you start. Changes of use of a building may also require approval.
Go to our Duty Building Service information page for information on building consents
Go to our Tradewaste page for information on tradewaste consent and grease trap
Any business wanting to operate selling alcohol will need to apply for a licence.