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Employment Relations Act 2000

Institutions - Miscellaneous provisions

219: Validation of informal proceedings, etc

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“Fixing mistakes in employment cases when you did things late or not quite right”

If you do something that the Employment Relations Act 2000 says you must do, but you do it too late or not quite right, you can ask the court or the Authority to help. They can decide to let you do it late or to say that what you did is okay even though it was not done properly. You can ask for this help if you are someone who is affected by what happened. The court can make this decision, but only if the problem is with something that is happening in their court. If the problem is with a case that is already happening in a different court, the court cannot make this decision. You can ask the court or the Authority for help with things that you did informally, which means you did not follow the exact rules, or if you did something late, as long as you are someone who is affected by what happened.

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Part 10 Institutions
Miscellaneous provisions

219Validation of informal proceedings, etc

  1. If anything which is required or authorised to be done by this Act is not done within the time allowed, or is done informally, the court, or the Authority, as the case may be, may in its discretion, on the application of any person interested, make an order extending the time within which the thing may be done, or validating the thing so informally done.

  2. Nothing in this section authorises the court to make any such order in respect of judicial proceedings then already instituted in any court other than the court.

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  • 1991 No 22 s 138