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229A: Investigating question of employment
or “This law lets Labour Inspectors check if a place is a workplace and if people working there are employees or employers.”
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“Rules about when officials can go into someone's home for work reasons”

You need to know about a rule for Labour Inspectors when they want to enter a house where people live. A Labour Inspector can’t go into or be inside a house unless one of two things happens:

  1. Someone who lives in the house says it’s okay for the inspector to come in.

  2. The inspector has a special permission called a warrant. This warrant is explained in section 231 of the law.

This rule is part of section 229 or section 229A of the law. It’s there to protect your privacy at home while still letting Labour Inspectors do their job when they really need to.

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or “A judge can allow a work inspector to enter someone's home if it's used for work or to get to work.”
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230Entry of dwellinghouses

  1. No Labour Inspector may, under section 229 or 229A, enter in or be on any dwellinghouse unless he or she either—

  2. has the consent of an occupier of that dwellinghouse; or
    1. is authorised to do so by a warrant issued under section 231.

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      Notes
      • Section 230: amended, on , by section 6 of the Regulatory Systems (Workforce) Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 63).