201Regulations

1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations—

2. prescribing the procedure to be followed (see also section 201A), the type of equipment to be used, and the arrangements to be made where a person’s evidence is to be video recorded:
3. providing for the approval of interviewers, or classes of interviewers, for child complainants, and providing for such approvals to be proved by production of certificates in the prescribed form:
4. regulating the way in which evidence of a witness may be given in an alternative way:
5. prescribing the form of certificate by which an interviewer is to formally identify a video record:
6. regulating the video recording of evidence:
7. providing for the consent of persons to be video recorded and specifying who may give consent on behalf of children who are to be video recorded:
8. prescribing the uses to which any video records may be put and prohibiting their use for other purposes:
9. prescribing the ways in which video records may be dealt with, including access to or the disclosure or sharing of video records, or the custody or return of video records, or prohibiting or restricting their copying:
10. providing for the safe custody of video records intended to be offered as evidence:
11. prescribing requirements for viewing video records of evidence by defendants, their lawyers, and expert witnesses, including where and when viewing can take place:
12. providing for the preparation of transcripts of video records and for their uses and safe custody:
13. regulating the destruction of video records or of transcripts of video records (including the destruction of copies or summaries of, or of extracts or parts of, video records or transcripts of video records):
15. regulating the provision of communication assistance to defendants and witnesses:
16. providing for requirements, in addition to those set out in section 45(3), for formal procedures that are held to obtain visual identification evidence:
17. providing for the determination of the amount of fees and expenses, including minimum and maximum amounts, payable in respect of professional services provided by counsel appointed under section 115:
18. regulating the form of warnings or information that can be given by a Judge in relation to evidence given by children under the age of 6 years in a proceeding tried by a jury:
19. regulating the translation of documents into English or Māori:
20. providing for any other matters contemplated by this Act, necessary for its administration, or necessary for giving it full effect.

21. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).