Matters relating to the electronic presentation of the audited financial statements

This audit report relates to the financial statements of Department of Building and Housing for the year
ended 30 June 2006 included on Department of Building and Housing’s web site. The Chief Executive
is responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the Department of Building and Housing’s web site.
We have not been engaged to report on the integrity of the Department of Building and Housing’s web
site. We accept no responsibility for any changes that may have occurred to the financial statements
since they were initially presented on the web site.

The audit report refers only to the financial statements named above. It does not provide an opinion
on any other information which may have been hyperlinked to/from these financial statements.
If readers of this report are concerned with the inherent risks arising from electronic data communication
they should refer to the published hard copy of the audited financial statements and related audit
report dated 29 September 2006 to confirm the information included in the audited financial
statements presented on this web site.

Legislation in New Zealand governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements
may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.