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135A: Chief executive or Labour Inspector may enforce payment of penalty
or “The boss or worker helper can make someone pay the money they owe if they broke the rules.”
You could also call this:

“Money from fines can go to the government or sometimes to other people if a judge says so.”

When someone is fined for breaking employment laws, the money from that fine doesn’t go to the person who reported the problem. Instead, it goes to the Employment Relations Authority or the court that handled the case. They then send this money to a government bank account.

However, the Authority or the court can decide to give some or all of the fine money to a specific person if they think it’s right to do so.

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Next up: 137: Power of Authority to order compliance

or “The Authority can make rules to ensure people follow employment agreements and laws”
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Part 9 Personal grievances, disputes, and enforcement
Penalties

136Application of penalties recovered

  1. Subject to any order made under subsection (2), every penalty recovered in any penalty action, whether before the Authority or the court, must be paid into the Authority or the court, as the case requires, and not to the plaintiff, and must then be paid by the Authority or the court into a Crown Bank Account.

  2. The Authority or the court may order that the whole or any part of any penalty recovered must be paid to any person.

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  • 1991 No 22 s 54
Notes
  • Section 136(1): amended, on , pursuant to section 65R(3) of the Public Finance Act 1989 (1989 No 44).