37Code may incorporate official standards by reference

1. WorkSafe may include in any electrical code of practice a reference to—

2. an official standard or a specified part of an official standard; or
3. an official standard or a specified part of an official standard with such additions or variations as are specified in the code—
if that official standard or, as the case may be, that part of that official standard relates to the subject matter of the code.

4. On the inclusion in a code of a reference to an official standard or part of an official standard, that official standard or, as the case may be, that part of that official standard (as it existed on the date of the inclusion but with such additions or variations (if any) as are specified in the code) shall be deemed to form part of the code.

Compare

• 1968 No 125 s 24B(3), (4)
• 1983 No 123 s 6

Notes

• Section 37(1): amended, on 16 December 2013, by section 22 of the WorkSafe New Zealand Act 2013 (2013 No 94).