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5: Interpretation
or “This section explains what different words and phrases mean in this law, helping you understand important terms used in the rest of the document.”
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“This part explains how changes to the law are put into action and what happens during the transition.”

You can find important information about changes to this law in Schedule 1AA. This schedule has details about how new changes to the law will be applied, what parts of the old law will be kept, and how the change from the old law to the new law will happen. These details are for changes made to the law after 1 January 2013. If you want to know more about this, you can look at section 254 of the law.

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Part 2 Preliminary provisions
Interpretation

5AProvisions affecting application of amendments to this Act

  1. Schedule 1AA contains application, savings, and transitional provisions relating to amendments made to this Act after 1 January 2013 (see section 254).

Notes
  • Section 5A: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 61).