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Employment Relations Act 2000

General provisions - Powers

231: Entry warrant

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“A Judge can give permission to enter a house to check if work is being done there.”

A Judge can issue a special permit called a warrant if they believe a house is where someone works or is the only way to get to where someone works. You might need to enter a house to check if people are working there, and the Judge can give a Labour Inspector permission to do this. The Labour Inspector must be named in the warrant and can only enter the house or part of the house where the work is being done, or where they need to go to get to the work area, and this can happen in cases to which section 229A applies.

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Part 11 General provisions
Powers

231Entry warrant

  1. A Judge who, on application made on oath, is satisfied that there is reasonable ground for believing that a dwellinghouse—

  2. is a place in which any person is employed or is the only practicable means through which such a place may be entered; or
    1. in any case to which section 229A applies, is a place in which any person performs work or is the only practicable means through which such a place may be entered,—
        1. may issue a warrant authorising a Labour Inspector named in it to enter that dwellinghouse or any part of that dwellinghouse that is, or is the only practicable means through which the Inspector may enter, a place where any person is employed.

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      Notes
      • Section 231(a): replaced, on , by section 7 of the Regulatory Systems (Workforce) Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 63).
      • Section 231(b): replaced, on , by section 7 of the Regulatory Systems (Workforce) Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 63).