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Employment Relations Act 2000

General provisions - Infringement offences

235C: When infringement notice may be issued

You could also call this:

“A special inspector can give you a ticket if they think you broke the rules at work.”

If a Labour Inspector thinks you might be breaking or have broken a specific employment rule, they can give you an infringement notice. This notice tells you that you might have done something wrong according to the law. The Labour Inspector needs to have good reasons to believe this before they can give you the notice. You don’t need to worry about what an infringement offence is right now, but just know it’s a type of rule-breaking that the law talks about.

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Part 11 General provisions
Infringement offences

235CWhen infringement notice may be issued

  1. A Labour Inspector may issue an infringement notice to a person if the Labour Inspector believes on reasonable grounds that the person is committing, or has committed, an infringement offence.

Notes
  • Section 235C: replaced, on , by section 21 of the Worker Protection (Migrant and Other Employees) Act 2023 (2023 No 36).