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Crown Organisations (Criminal Liability) Act 2002

Criminal liability of Crown organisations

7: Legal status of certain Crown organisations

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"What the law says about some Crown organisations"

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You are part of a Crown organisation that is not a body corporate. This organisation has a separate legal personality for certain purposes. It must comply with laws like the Building Act 2004, the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012, and the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. You must also follow the Resource Management Act 1991, the Water Services Act 2021, and Part 3 of the Children’s Act 2014. This means your organisation can be taken to court for offences and sentenced if found guilty. Your organisation can be prosecuted, sentenced, and have sentences enforced against it. This is also the case for bringing, hearing, and determining proceedings against your organisation for certain offences, like those referred to in section 6.

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Part 1Criminal liability of Crown organisations

7Legal status of certain Crown organisations

  1. A Crown organisation that is not a body corporate has a separate legal personality for the purposes of—

  2. compliance with the obligations imposed by the Building Act 2004, the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012, the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, the Resource Management Act 1991, the Water Services Act 2021, or Part 3 of the Children’s Act 2014; and
    1. the bringing, hearing, and determination of proceedings against it for an offence referred to in section 6; and
      1. the imposition of sentence if that organisation is convicted; and
        1. the enforcement of any sentence imposed on that organisation.

          Notes
          • Section 7(a): substituted, on , by section 163(4) of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).
          • Section 7(a): amended, on , by section 12(1) of the Water Services Acts Repeal Act 2024 (2024 No 2).
          • Section 7(a): amended, on , by section 6 of the Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Act 2023 (2023 No 68).
          • Section 7(a): amended, on , by section 10(1) of the Children's Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 58).
          • Section 7(a): amended, on , by section 232 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (2015 No 70).
          • Section 7(a): amended, on , by section 42(3) of the Vulnerable Children Act 2014 (2014 No 40).
          • Section 7(a): amended, on , by section 172(3) of the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012 (2012 No 72).