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Employment Relations Act 2000

Personal grievances, disputes, and enforcement - Enforcement of order

141: Enforcement of order

You could also call this:

“How the court makes sure you follow its decisions about work problems”

If the Employment Relations Authority or the court makes an order or gives a judgment under any of the Acts mentioned in section 223(1), you can file it in the District Court. This includes orders that impose a fine. Once filed, you can enforce these orders or judgments in the same way as if the District Court had made them.

To be clear, if an order imposes a fine, you can enforce it using Part 3 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957. This means there’s a specific process to follow when collecting fines that have been imposed.

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Part 9 Personal grievances, disputes, and enforcement
Enforcement of order

141Enforcement of order

  1. Any order made or judgment given under any of the Acts referred to in section 223(1) by the Authority or the court (including an order imposing a fine) may be filed in the District Court, and is then enforceable in the same manner as an order made or judgment given by the District Court.

  2. To avoid doubt, an order imposing a fine is enforceable under Part 3 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957.

Compare
  • 1991 No 22 s 58
Notes
  • Section 141(1): amended, on , by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).
  • Section 141(1): amended, on , by section 18(1) of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 9).
  • Section 141(2): inserted, on , by section 18(2) of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 9).