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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Miscellaneous provisions - Administration - Joint policy directions

194: Designated agency must give effect to joint policy directions

You could also call this:

“Government agencies must follow joint ministerial directions for health and safety work”

When the Minister and the Minister responsible for a designated agency give joint policy directions, the designated agency must follow these directions when it does its job under this Act or any other law. This is unless another law says they can’t.

The Ministers must write down their directions and sign them.

When the Ministers give these directions, some rules from the Crown Entities Act 2004 also apply. These rules are in Sections 113 and 115 of that Act. When you read those rules, you need to change some words. Instead of saying “Crown entity” or “entity”, you should think “designated agency”. You might also need to make some other small changes to make the rules fit.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Administration: Joint policy directions

194Designated agency must give effect to joint policy directions

  1. Subject to any enactment or rule of law, a designated agency must, in performing functions and exercising powers under this Act or any other enactment, give effect to any joint policy directions given to it by the Minister and the Minister responsible for the designated agency.

  2. A direction given under subsection (1) must be in writing and signed by the Ministers.

  3. Sections 113 and 115 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 apply to a direction given under subsection (1) subject to—

  4. all references to a Crown entity or entity being read as references to a designated agency; and
    1. any other necessary modifications.

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