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Employment Relations Act 2000

Codes of employment practice and code of good faith for public health sector - Code of good faith for public health sector

100F: Code of good faith for employment relationships in relation to provision of services by New Zealand Police

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“Rules for treating police workers fairly when they do their job”

You should know that there’s a special set of rules for how the New Zealand Police and their workers should treat each other. These rules are called a ‘code of good faith’, and you can find them in Schedule 1C of the law.

This code works alongside other laws, but it doesn’t replace them. It’s especially important to remember that it doesn’t change the general rule that everyone should act in good faith at work, which is explained in section 4 of the law.

Just because someone follows this code doesn’t automatically mean they’re acting in good faith. But if someone doesn’t follow the code when they should, they’re breaking the rule about acting in good faith.

There might be other codes that apply to the police too, but if they say different things, the code in Schedule 1C is the one to follow.

Remember, these rules are there to help make sure the police and the people who work for them treat each other fairly and respectfully.

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Code of good faith for public health sector

100FCode of good faith for employment relationships in relation to provision of services by New Zealand Police

  1. Schedule 1C contains a code of good faith for employment relationships in relation to the provision of services by the New Zealand Police.

  2. The code—

  3. applies subject to the other provisions of this Act and any other enactment; and
    1. in particular, does not limit the application of the duty of good faith in section 4 in relation to the New Zealand Police.

      1. Compliance with the code does not, of itself, necessarily mean that the duty of good faith in section 4 has been complied with.

      2. It is a breach of the duty of good faith in section 4 for a person to whom the code applies to fail to comply with the code.

      3. This section does not prevent a code of good faith approved under section 35 or a code of employment practice approved under section 100A applying to employment relationships in relation to the provision of services by the New Zealand Police.

      4. However, in the case of any inconsistency, the code set out in Schedule 1C prevails over a code approved under section 35 or 100A.

      Notes
      • Section 100F: inserted, on , by section 120 of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).