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Employment Relations Act 2000

General provisions - Powers

231: Entry warrant

You could also call this:

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

If a judge believes there’s a good reason, they can give a Labour Inspector permission to enter a house. This permission is called an entry warrant. The judge can give this permission if they think the house is where someone works, or if it’s the only way to get to a place where someone works. The judge can also give permission if the house is where someone does work, or if it’s the only way to get to a place where someone does work. This second reason applies in special cases covered by section 229A. When the judge gives permission, they write down the name of the Labour Inspector who can enter the house. The inspector can only go into the parts of the house that are used for work or that they need to go through to get to the work area.

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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).