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Employment Relations Act 2000

General provisions - Transitional provisions

254: Application, savings, and transitional provisions relating to amendments to Act

You could also call this:

“This section explains how changes to the law will be put into place and what rules will be followed during the change.”

You should know about a part of the Employment Relations Act 2000 that deals with changes to the law. This part is called ‘Application, savings, and transitional provisions relating to amendments to Act’.

The law says that if any changes were made to this Act after 1 January 2013, you can find out how these changes work in Schedule 1AA. This schedule explains how the new changes apply, what parts of the old law are saved, and how to move from the old rules to the new ones.

This helps make sure that when the law changes, everyone knows how to follow the new rules and what happens to things that were done under the old rules.

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Topics:

Work and jobs > Worker rights

253: Existing appointments, or

“People who were already judges keep their jobs under the new law”

Schedule 1AA: Application, savings, and transitional provisions relating to amendments made to this Act after 1 January 2013, or

“How changes to the Employment Relations Act are applied over time”

Part 11 General provisions
Transitional provisions

254Application, savings, and transitional provisions relating to amendments to Act

The application, savings, and transitional provisions set out in Schedule 1AA, which relate to amendments made to this Act after 1 January 2013, have effect for the purposes of this Act.

Notes

Section 254: inserted, on 6 March 2015, by section 76 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 61).