138Standards

1. The chief executive may make 1 or more standards—

2. providing for anything that this Act says must or may be provided for by the standards; and
3. prescribing, for the purposes of any provision of this Act that requires a thing to be done in a manner prescribed by the standards (or regulations), the manner in which the thing must be done, including prescribing—
   1. by whom, when, where, and how the thing must be done:
   2. the form that must be used in connection with doing the thing:
   3. what information or other evidence or documents must be provided in connection with the thing:
   4. requirements with which information, evidence, or documents that are provided in connection with the thing must comply.

4. If the standards are inconsistent with the regulations, the regulations prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.

5. Standards made under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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