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Employment Relations Act 2000

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100C: Authority or court may have regard to code of employment practice

You could also call this:

"Courts can use a guide to check if employment rules are being followed."

When you are in a court case, a code of employment practice can be used as evidence. This means it can help show if the rules have been followed. The Authority or a court can look at the code to see if the rules are being followed.

You can think of the code like a guide that helps people understand what they need to do. The Authority or a court can use this guide to decide what is required to follow the rules. They can also rely on the code to make decisions about what people need to do to comply with the rules.

If you want to learn more about the laws that relate to this, you can look at the Employment Relations Act and other related laws, such as the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2020.

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Codes of employment practice

100CAuthority or court may have regard to code of employment practice

  1. A code of employment practice is admissible in any civil or criminal proceedings as evidence of whether the enactment to which it relates has been complied with.

  2. The Authority or a court may—

  3. have regard to the code as evidence of compliance with the provisions of the enactment to which it relates; and
    1. rely on the code in determining what is required to comply with those provisions.

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      • Section 100C: replaced, on , by section 28 of the Equal Pay Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 45).