Industry rules
This page contains different parts of laws about Industry rules, within the topic of Business.

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Weights and Measures Act 1987
Explaining important words and ideas in the Weights and Measures Act
2: Interpretation
Weights and Measures Act 1987
This law applies to everyone, including the government
3: Act to bind the Crown
Weights and Measures Act 1987
The government keeps special measuring tools to make sure weights and measures are correct
5: Departmental standards
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Inspectors get special measuring tools to check if things are the right size or weight
7: Inspectors' working standards
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Rules for keeping and checking measurement tools used by certified measurers
7A: Accredited persons' working standards
Weights and Measures Act 1987
When you can use different ways of measuring things instead of the metric system
9: Exceptions to obligations to use metric system of weights and measures
Weights and Measures Act 1987
You must use metric units when selling things in New Zealand
10: Obligation to use metric system in advertising goods for sale
Weights and Measures Act 1987
When you don't need to use metric measurements in ads for selling things
11: Exceptions to obligation to use metric weights and measures in advertising goods for sale
Weights and Measures Act 1987
The government must okay measuring tools before they can be used officially
20: Approval of appliances
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Weights and measures used for trading need a special approval stamp
21: Weights and measures to be stamped with mark of verification
Weights and Measures Act 1987
This explains how to get a certificate that shows your weights and measures are correct
22A: Certificate of accuracy
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Telling someone their scales or measuring tools don't follow the rules
23: Notification of non-compliance
Weights and Measures Act 1987
The law used to have people who checked if weights and measures were correct
25: Chief Inspector and Deputy Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures
Weights and Measures Act 1987
People who check if weights and measures are correct
26: Inspectors of Weights and Measures
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Inspectors can check shops and vehicles to make sure weights and measures are fair
28: Powers of Inspectors
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Inspectors can't check weights and measures not used for buying and selling anymore
30: Inspector may inspect weights, measures, etc, not used for trade
Weights and Measures Act 1987
How the Secretary allows people to check and approve weights and measures
30A: Appointment of accredited persons
Weights and Measures Act 1987
How to ask to become an official checker for weights and measures
30B: Application for accreditation
Weights and Measures Act 1987
How long accreditation lasts and how to renew it
30C: Duration and renewal of accreditation
Weights and Measures Act 1987
When an accredited person can be stopped from working for a while
30DA: Suspension of accreditation
Weights and Measures Act 1987
What happens when your approval to measure things is put on hold
30DB: Effect of suspension of accreditation
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Rules for accredited people can be changed, removed, or added
30E: Revocation, etc, of conditions
Weights and Measures Act 1987
You can challenge the Secretary's choices about weight and measure experts in court
30F: Appeals against decisions of Secretary
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Court can ask someone to look at an appeal again
30H: Court may refer appeals back for reconsideration
Weights and Measures Act 1987
What inspectors can do to check if you're following the rules about weights and measures
30I: Powers of inspection
Weights and Measures Act 1987
You might be responsible if your workers break weight and measure rules
31: Liability of principal for acts of agents, etc
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Rules about pretending to be inspectors and using fake stamps or marks on weights and measures
32: Offences
Weights and Measures Act 1987
This part about rule-breaking fines has been taken out of the law
33A: Infringement fee
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Rules for fair and accurate weights and measures in New Zealand
41: Regulations
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Rules for checking if package contents match their labels
41A: Regulations for purposes of section 16A(3)
Weights and Measures Act 1987
List of official measurements used in New Zealand
Schedule 2: Standards of weights and measures
Weights and Measures Act 1987
List of old rules about weights and measures that were replaced by this new law
Schedule 3:
Weights and Measures Act 1987
Some special weighing or measuring tools used in trade need a paper to show they're correct
22B: Certificate of accuracy required for certain weighing or measuring instruments
Conservation Act 1987
Protecting areas next to water for conservation and fun activities
24C: Purposes of marginal strips
Conservation Act 1987
You might have to pay a fee if someone lets you do something that helps you make money.
60D: Royalties, etc, may be required in certain circumstances
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
When this law starts working and how it's decided
2: Commencement
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
This law explains who needs to be registered to provide money services and how to handle complaints
3: Overview
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Words and their meanings in this law about money services
4: Interpretation
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
What counts as a financial service in this law
5: Meaning of financial service
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
People and groups who don't count as financial service businesses
7: Persons who are not in business of providing financial service
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The government must follow this law too
8: Act binds the Crown
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
This part explains why we keep a list of money helpers and make sure they follow the rules
9: Purpose of this Part
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How to sign up and be removed from the list of financial service providers
10: Registration and deregistration
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Financial service businesses must register and join a special group to handle complaints
11: Person in business of providing financial service must be registered and member of approved dispute resolution scheme
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
You can only say you're a registered financial service provider if you really are
12: No holding out that in business of providing financial service unless registered and member of approved dispute resolution scheme
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
What you need to be a registered financial service provider
13: Qualifications for registration as financial service provider
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Who can't be registered because of past actions or current situations
14: Disqualified person
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How to sign up as a money helper
15: Application to be registered as financial service provider
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How the Registrar signs you up as a financial service provider
16: Registration of financial service provider
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How a financial service provider can change their details
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Financial service providers must tell the Registrar about important changes
17: Duty to notify changes relating to financial service provider
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How a financial service provider can be removed from the register
18: Deregistration of financial service provider
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Letting a financial service provider know they might be taken off the list
19: Notice of intention to deregister
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How financial service providers can say no to being removed from the list
20: Objection to proposed deregistration of financial service provider
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The law says the Registrar must tell people when a financial service provider is taken off the list
21: Notification of deregistration of financial service provider
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The Registrar keeps a list of people and companies that help with money
24: Register of financial service providers
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
What is the list of financial service providers for and how does it help people?
26: Purposes of register
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
List of important details about financial service providers kept in an official record
27: Contents of register
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
You must tell the Registrar about your money business every year
28: Annual confirmation
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The person in charge must update the list of financial service providers when things change
29: Registrar must amend register in certain circumstances
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Why you can look at the list of financial service providers
32: Search purposes
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Registrar can give some tasks to other people
36: Power of Registrar to delegate
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How the Registrar can check if you're following the rules for financial services
37: Registrar’s inspection powers
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Company bosses can get in trouble if their company breaks the law
40: Offence also committed by director
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
It's against the law to lie or hide facts when registering as a financial service provider
41: Offence to make false or misleading representation
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How to challenge decisions about your financial service provider registration
42: Appeals from Registrar’s decisions and FMA directions
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Rules for managing financial services and providers
44: Regulations under Part 1 and this Part
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Minister decides if a complaint-handling system can be used
53: Minister must decide application for approval
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The government can stop a dispute resolution scheme if it doesn't follow the rules
56: Withdrawal of approval
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The Government tells a complaint-handling group they might lose their approval
57: Notice of intention to withdraw approval
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
What happens to members when a dispute resolution scheme loses approval
61: Effect of withdrawal of approval on members of dispute resolution scheme
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Scheme managers must show everyone who belongs to their group online
62: List of members
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Rules for solving problems with financial service providers
63: Rules about approved dispute resolution scheme
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The rule about having a backup plan for solving money problems is no longer used
72: Appointment of reserve scheme
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
You used to be able to disagree if someone wanted to remove a financial service provider from a list, but this rule no longer exists.
75: Objection to intended recommendation for revocation
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Rules for settling money arguments with financial companies
79: Regulations under this Part
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Re-adding a financial service provider to the official list
22: Reregistration of financial service provider
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Financial service providers need to join a special group that handles customer complaints
48: Financial service provider must be member of dispute resolution scheme
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Working together and sharing important information when handling money complaints
67: Duty to co-operate and communicate information in certain circumstances
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Sharing information when setting up a backup plan for financial services (no longer applies)
76: Duty to co-operate and communicate information in certain circumstances
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Who can give and who needs special permits for money services
Schedule 2: Licensing authorities and licensed providers
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
When someone says they're a big business customer, you need to check they really understand what that means
49B: Acceptance of certification
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Rules about fees for financial services were removed
78A: Levy
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Money penalty for breaking wholesale certification rules
79A: Pecuniary order for contravening wholesale certification requirement
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Court can order payment for breaking wholesale certification rules
79B: Compensation for contravention of wholesale certification requirement
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
This law aims to make money-related activities safe, fair, and easy to understand for everyone
2A: Purposes of this Act
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The FMA can stop people from registering as financial providers if it might mislead others
15A: Purpose of FMA's powers relating to registration
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The FMA can stop you from becoming a registered financial service provider
15B: FMA may prevent registration of financial service provider
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
FMA can stop someone from registering as a financial service provider, even if they meet all other rules
15C: FMA may prevent registration regardless of whether applicant is otherwise qualified to be registered
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Why the FMA can remove someone from the financial service providers list
18A: Purpose of FMA's powers relating to deregistration
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
FMA can check if a financial service provider should be taken off the list
18B: Consideration of deregistration of financial service provider by FMA
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
FMA can remove a financial service provider from the register for any reason
18C: FMA may direct deregistration regardless of whether section 18(1) applies
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Rules for switching to new laws about money services
Schedule 1AA: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
This law explains who must follow the rules about financial services
7A: Application of Act
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
You don't need to sign up twice for some money-related jobs if you're already signed up for similar work
12A: Registration for certain overlapping services not required
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
The Registrar can't sign up a financial adviser again if they were told not to
22A: Registrar must not reregister financial adviser if direction has been made
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
When and how your registration as a financial service provider can be paused
22B: Suspension of registration
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How to sign up as a financial advisor, even if you're not the boss
22C: Registration of financial advisers
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Financial advisers can lose their registration if they don't work with a provider for a long time
22D: Financial adviser may be deregistered if not engaged by provider for extended period
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
A simple guide to who hires a financial adviser when they work through someone else
44A: Who financial adviser is treated as engaged by when engaged indirectly
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
FMA oversees licensing for people who run financial markets
44B: FMA acts as licensing authority in relation to operators of financial product markets
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
How the Commerce Commission can share information about some businesses
23: Information-sharing provisions between Registrar and Commission
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Rules about how the Companies Office can use fees to run its registers
44AA: Validation of fees used to recover costs of other Companies Office registers, etc
Immigration Act 2009
Employers can be penalised for knowingly allowing unauthorised work
350: Offences by employers
Immigration Act 2009
Fines for education providers who break immigration rules
358: Penalties: education providers
Immigration Act 2009
Explaining important terms used in this part of the Immigration Act
359: Interpretation
Immigration Act 2009
Employers' responsibilities and legal protections when hiring non-New Zealand workers
456: Offences by employers
Immigration Act 2009
Fee for visitors to help protect New Zealand's environment and support tourism
399A: International visitor conservation and tourism levy
Immigration Act 2009
Rules and fines for employers hiring workers from overseas
359A: Employment infringement offence
Immigration Act 2009
How employers can receive immigration infringement notices
365B: How infringement notice may be served: employers
Immigration Act 2009
Sharing information about employers who break immigration laws
383A: Publication of names and information in respect of immigration offences
Trade Marks Act 2002
Company bosses can get in trouble if their company breaks the law
119: Liability of officers of body corporate
Trade Marks Act 2002
Not telling about keeping goods doesn't make it wrong
148: Consequences of failure to serve notice
Trade Marks Act 2002
Chief executive can share some job duties with other Customs officers
156: Delegation of chief executive's powers, duties, and functions
Trade Marks Act 2002
Customs officer can ask a judge to see important documents for investigating import crimes
155D: Customs officer may apply for production order
Trade Marks Act 2002
Customs boss can ask for papers about stuff they're watching
155B: Chief executive may require person to produce documents concerning goods in control of Customs
Trade Marks Act 2002
The boss can choose special helpers to make sure people follow the rules
134A: Chief executive may appoint enforcement officers
Local Government Act 2002
Explaining what organisations councils control or have a say in running
6: Meaning of council-controlled organisation and council organisation
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for big councils starting new projects
16: Significant new activities proposed by regional council
Local Government Act 2002
Directors of council-run groups must help reach the group's goals
58: Role of directors of council-controlled organisations
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for how councils make choices about the groups they control
60: Decisions relating to operation of council-controlled organisations
Local Government Act 2002
Rules about what groups working for councils can do
61: Activities undertaken on behalf of local authorities
Local Government Act 2002
Local councils can't promise to cover the costs of businesses they control
62: Prohibition on guarantees, etc
Local Government Act 2002
Organisations run by councils must make plans about what they will do
64: Statements of intent for council-controlled organisations
Local Government Act 2002
Regular updates on council-controlled organisations' activities
66: Half-yearly or quarterly reports
Local Government Act 2002
Council groups must write a yearly report about what they did
67: Annual report
Local Government Act 2002
What must be included in reports about how council-run organisations are doing
68: Content of reports on operations of council-controlled organisations
Local Government Act 2002
The council's company must show its money details and goals in a yearly report
69: Financial statements and auditor's report
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for council organisations that are also listed companies
71A: Application of Part to listed companies
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for companies connected to council-controlled organisations
72: Application of Act to related companies
Local Government Act 2002
Rules that protect you when you use your stuff as a promise for money you borrow
114: Constraints on receiver
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for making local laws about things like permits and fees
151: General provisions applying to bylaws made under this Act
Local Government Act 2002
Letting others help run the city's rules, but the city stays in charge
179: Contracting out administration of enforcement
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for businesses putting waste water into council drains
196: Discharge of trade wastes
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for council-owned businesses to report their plans and results
276: First statement of intent and report and accounts of existing local authority trading enterprises
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for making your first plan if you're a special council group that started before July 2003
277: First statement of intent of other council-controlled organisations
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for community groups that look after money from selling port shares
298: Community trusts
Local Government Act 2002
Rules for selling business land bought before 2002
304: Sale of land purchased for commercial or industrial purposes
Local Government Act 2002
Plans for companies controlled by local councils
Schedule 8: Statements of intent for council-controlled organisations
Local Government Act 2002
What happens when rules are changed or replaced in laws about financial reporting
259E: Effect of amendments to, or replacement of, standards incorporated by reference in regulations
Local Government Act 2002
How to prove that official standards are part of the rules
259F: Proof of standards incorporated by reference
Local Government Act 2002
How to fire people who help decide about building fees
199G: Removal of development contributions commissioners
Local Government Act 2002
Development contributions commissioners are protected from mistakes if they try their best
199L: Liability of development contributions commissioners
Local Government Act 2002
How a council or developer answers when asked to make a deal about building things
207B: Response to request for development agreement
Local Government Act 2002
What needs to be written in an agreement between a council and a builder
207C: Content of development agreement
Local Government Act 2002
A letter telling a council-owned company how to work with others
64B: Statement of expectations
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax credits for research and development spending (no longer available)
LH 2: Tax credits relating to expenditure on research and development
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax credits are no longer available for research and development
LH 7: Research and development activities and related terms
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax credits for industry research co-operatives were removed from the law
LH 16: Industry research co-operatives
Income Tax Act 2007
Selling your part of a business: what happens with tax
HG 5: Disposal of partner’s interests
Income Tax Act 2007
How to handle money from selling business assets, including stock
CB 2: Amounts received on disposal of business assets that include trading stock
Income Tax Act 2007
Income from selling personal property in your business
CB 5: Business of dealing in personal property
Income Tax Act 2007
Income rules for selling land within 10 years if you or someone close to you is in land development
CB 10: Disposal within 10 years: land development or subdivision business
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax on land sold within 10 years of improvements by a house-building business
CB 11: Disposal within 10 years of improvement: building business
Income Tax Act 2007
Selling business premises: when tax doesn't apply
CB 19: Business exclusion from sections CB 6 to CB 11
Income Tax Act 2007
Owner's income from reselling or re-leasing an item after a finance lease ends
CC 12: Lessor acquiring lease asset on expiry of term of lease
Income Tax Act 2007
How shareholding relationships can lead to transfers of company value
CD 6: When is a transfer caused by a shareholding relationship?
Income Tax Act 2007
Special dividends for producer boards and co-operative companies
CD 13: Notional distributions of producer boards and co-operative companies
Income Tax Act 2007
How to notify the lender about dividends received on borrowed shares
CD 17: Credit transfer notice
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for when a company buys back its own shares from the market
CD 24: Returns of capital: on-market share cancellations
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for companies buying and holding their own shares
CD 25: Treasury stock acquisitions
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for when property shared between related companies isn't a dividend
CD 27: Property made available intra-group
Income Tax Act 2007
Payments to members that match non-dividend distributions from producer boards and co-ops
CD 33: Payments corresponding to notional distributions of producer boards and co-operative companies
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for tax-free property transfers when companies merge
CD 35: Resident’s restricted amalgamations
Income Tax Act 2007
How to calculate dividends when a company lets you use its property
CD 39: Calculation of amount of dividend when property made available
Income Tax Act 2007
How tax records are adjusted when a company recovers a dividend
CD 40: Adjustment if dividend recovered by company
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules about selling shares from purchase agreements no longer apply
CE 3: Restrictions on disposal of shares under share purchase agreements
Income Tax Act 2007
Trustees act on behalf of companies in employee share schemes
CE 6: Trusts are nominees
Income Tax Act 2007
What employee share schemes are and how they work
CE 7: Meaning of employee share scheme
Income Tax Act 2007
When you might have income from a controlled foreign company
CQ 2: When attributed CFC income arises
Income Tax Act 2007
How premiums paid to overseas insurers are taxed in New Zealand
CR 3: Income of non-resident general insurer
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for partners selling shares in mining and petroleum assets
CT 4: Partnership interests and disposal of part of asset
Income Tax Act 2007
Definition of a petroleum miner in the oil and gas industry
CT 6: Meaning of petroleum miner
Income Tax Act 2007
What counts as equipment or property used for petroleum mining
CT 7: Meaning of petroleum mining asset
Income Tax Act 2007
How mineral miners report income from selling mining land
CU 2: Treatment of mining land
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for when you sell or dispose of mining equipment
CU 3: Disposal of mineral mining assets
Income Tax Act 2007
How partners own and sell mining assets in a partnership
CU 5: Partnership interests and disposal of part of asset
Income Tax Act 2007
Defines key mining terms and activities for industrial minerals in New Zealand
CU 7: Some definitions
Income Tax Act 2007
Definition and management of key minerals for New Zealand's industry
CU 8: Meaning of listed industrial mineral
Income Tax Act 2007
Definitions of key terms for mineral mining assets and rights
CU 9: Some definitions
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for selling shares within a group of companies
CV 3: Consolidated groups: arrangement for disposal of shares
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for statutory producer boards on handling levies as income
CV 5: Statutory producer boards
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for New Zealand winemakers to claim rebates on wine sold in Australia
CV 8: Regulations: Australian wine producer rebate
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax rules for forestry companies buying land with trees from the Crown, Māori owners, or holding companies
CW 1: Forestry companies established by the Crown, Maori owners, and holding companies acquiring land with standing timber from founders
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax-free interest on special loans from forestry and Māori investment companies
CW 3: Forestry companies and Maori investment companies
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax-free profits from selling certain venture investments
CW 13: Proceeds from share or option acquired under venture investment agreement
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax rules for charities running businesses
CW 42: Charities: business income
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax exemptions for racing organisations and clubs
CW 47: TAB NZ and racing clubs
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax exemption for approved scientific or industrial research groups
CW 49: Bodies promoting scientific or industrial research
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax exemptions for veterinary groups that improve services in New Zealand
CW 50: Veterinary services bodies
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax exemption for dairy cow breeding improvement organisations
CW 51: Herd improvement bodies
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax exemptions for NZ companies doing business in Niue
CW 59: New Zealand companies operating in Niue
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for taxing non-cash benefits given to employee shareholders or investors
CX 17: Benefits provided to employees who are shareholders or investors
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for New Zealand residents who run insurance businesses
CX 41: Resident insurance underwriters
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for sharing costs in mining partnerships
CX 43: Farm-out arrangements for mining operations
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for foreign currency loans and exchange rate changes in business
CZ 3: Exchange variations on 8 August 1975
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for primary producer co-ops selling assets or paying shareholders after 1987-88 deductions
CZ 7: Primary producer co-operative companies: 1987–88 income year
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for certain reinsurance claims spanning 1 July 1993
CZ 12: General insurance with risk period straddling 1 July 1993
Income Tax Act 2007
Dairy companies exiting in 2001 don't pay tax on interest from buy-out
CZ 16: Interest payable to exiting company: 2001
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax-free dividend for companies leaving the dairy industry in 2001
CZ 17: Dividend of exiting company: 2001
Income Tax Act 2007
Approval for benefit providers within six months of November 2003
CZ 18: Benefit provider approved within 6 months of 25 November 2003
Income Tax Act 2007
Deductions for business-related Chatham Islands Council dues
DB 4: Chatham Islands dues
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for scientific research expenses
DB 33: Scientific research
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for research and development spending
DB 34: Research or development
Income Tax Act 2007
Definitions for research and development tax rules
DB 35: Some definitions
Income Tax Act 2007
Companies can reduce their tax by donating to approved charities
DB 41: Charitable or other public benefit gifts by company
Income Tax Act 2007
What happens when employees or contractors steal from your business
DB 42: Property misappropriated by employees or service providers
Income Tax Act 2007
Claiming tax deductions for losses caused by a partner's theft
DB 43: Making good loss from misappropriation by partners
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for pollution and noise reduction costs in business
DB 46: Avoiding, remedying, or mitigating effects of discharge of contaminant or making of noise
Income Tax Act 2007
Explaining when businesses can claim deductions for retirement and redundancy payments
DC 1: Lump sum payments on retirement
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for pensions paid to former employees who retired or were made redundant
DC 2: Pension payments to former employees
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax rules for paying a pension to a former business partner
DC 3: Pension payments to former partners
Income Tax Act 2007
When you can claim full deductions for promoting your business
DD 5: Promoting businesses, goods, or services
Income Tax Act 2007
Exceptions for entertainment expenses in business or charity
DD 6: Entertainment as business or for charitable purpose
Income Tax Act 2007
How to claim deductions for business use of your car
DE 2: Deductions for business use
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for keeping a vehicle logbook for business use
DE 7: Logbook requirements
Income Tax Act 2007
How government grants affect business tax deductions
DF 1: Government grants to businesses
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for protective plantings on farmland
DO 2: Plantings for erosion, shelter, and water protection purposes
Income Tax Act 2007
Farmers can claim money for planting and maintaining certain trees on their land
DO 3: Trees on farms
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for planting specific horticultural plants on business land
DO 5: Expenditure on land: planting of listed horticultural plants
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deduction for replacing plants in horticultural businesses
DO 6: Expenditure on land: horticultural replacement planting
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for tracking spending on horticultural plants for tax deductions
DO 7: Accounting for expenditure on listed horticultural plants under sections DO 5 and DO 6
Income Tax Act 2007
Explanation of 'planting' and 'plot' for horticultural businesses in tax reporting
DO 8: Meaning of planting and plot
Income Tax Act 2007
Deductions for land improvements when renting to farmers
DO 10: Farming or horticulture expenditure of lessor or sublessor
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deduction for destroyed or unusable business land improvements
DO 11: Improvement destroyed or made useless
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for aquaculture business improvements
DO 12: Improvements to aquacultural business
Income Tax Act 2007
Claiming deductions for damaged aquaculture improvements
DO 13: Improvement destroyed or made useless
Income Tax Act 2007
Claiming expenses for your forestry business in New Zealand
DP 1: Expenditure of forestry business
Income Tax Act 2007
Deductions for machinery used in forestry businesses
DP 2: Plant or machinery
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for improving forestry land
DP 3: Improvements to forestry land
Income Tax Act 2007
No tax deduction for forestry businesses paying interest on certain Crown or Māori land loans
DP 8: Forestry business on land acquired from the Crown, Maori owners, or holding company: no deduction
Income Tax Act 2007
How to calculate the cost when buying timber or rights to timber in various situations
DP 10: Cost of acquiring timber or right to take timber: other cases
Income Tax Act 2007
How to claim a tax deduction for timber costs when selling timber
DP 11: Cost of timber
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for claiming deductions on film production costs
DS 2: Film production expenditure
Income Tax Act 2007
What a film reimbursement scheme is and how it works
DS 4: Meaning of film reimbursement scheme
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for claiming deductions on petroleum exploration expenses and property sales
DT 2: Arrangement for petroleum exploration expenditure and disposal of property
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax rules for buying oil exploration permits or privileges
DT 3: Acquisition of privileges and permits
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for petroleum miners' development costs
DT 5: Petroleum development expenditure
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for tax treatment of money spent on exploratory oil and gas wells
DT 7: Exploratory well expenditure
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for deducting costs when buying petroleum mining assets
DT 8: Acquisition of certain petroleum mining assets
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for selling petroleum mining assets to people connected to you
DT 9: Disposal of petroleum mining asset to associate
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for petroleum miners when ending an association with a connected buyer of their assets
DT 11: Association ending
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for people working with petroleum miners who have existing privileges
DT 15: Persons associated with petroleum miner
Income Tax Act 2007
Tax deductions for petroleum miners shutting down operations
DT 16: Decommissioning
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for handling partnership property and selling assets or parts of assets
DT 19: Partnership interests and disposal of part of asset
Income Tax Act 2007
Rules for petroleum miners working overseas
DT 20: Petroleum mining operations outside New Zealand
Gambling Act 2003
The Purpose of the Gambling Act 2003 is to make gambling fair and safe for everyone.
3: Purpose
Gambling Act 2003
The Government can ask you for information to check if you have too much control over a casino.
8: Secretary may seek information to assess influence
Gambling Act 2003
What makes casino gambling increase, according to the Gambling Commission?
12: What is increase in casino gambling
Gambling Act 2003
Rules for running class 4 gambling games and venues
31: Requirements for class 4 gambling
Gambling Act 2003
TAB NZ and racing clubs have special rules for running gambling games
33: Status of TAB NZ and racing clubs
Gambling Act 2003
How to renew a special licence to run a small gambling game
41: Renewal of class 3 operator’s licence
Gambling Act 2003
When can you get a licence to run a class 4 gambling operation to raise money for good causes?
52: Grounds for granting class 4 operator’s licence
Gambling Act 2003
You need approval to make big changes to a class 4 operator's licence, like changing goals or closing down.
55: Change of purpose and winding up provisions of holder of class 4 operator’s licence ineffective without approval
Gambling Act 2003
How to renew a special licence to run gambling games
56: Renewal of class 4 operator’s licence
Gambling Act 2003
How to renew a licence for a place where people can gamble
72: Renewal of class 4 venue licence
Gambling Act 2003
What happens when someone wants to stop or cancel a venue's gambling licence
75: Procedure for suspending, cancelling, or refusing to amend or renew class 4 venue licence
Gambling Act 2003
You can't sell or give away a Class 4 venue licence to someone else.
80: Class 4 venue licence not transferable
Gambling Act 2003
Rules for how many gaming machines you can have at a venue with a class 4 licence
93: Limit on number of gaming machines for which class 4 venue licence granted after 17 October 2001 but before commencement
Gambling Act 2003
Corporate societies doing certain types of gambling must give the Secretary a yearly report on their finances.
107: Corporate society must provide annual report to Secretary
Gambling Act 2003
What's in a yearly report about class 4 gambling
108: Contents of annual report
Gambling Act 2003
The government can control how much money gambling groups spend on running costs.
116: Secretary may limit or exclude operating costs of corporate society
Gambling Act 2003
Rules for running a casino legally in New Zealand
119: Requirements for casino gambling
Gambling Act 2003
Betting on sports or racing in casinos has special rules if it's run by TAB NZ.
120: Racing betting and sports betting in casinos
Gambling Act 2003
Old casino licences are treated like new ones under the law
122: Existing casino licences and agreements
Gambling Act 2003
Who can run a casino: Checking if you're honest, responsible, and good with money
124: Suitability requirements
Gambling Act 2003
Using your casino licence as security for a loan needs Gambling Commission approval
126: Mortgage or assignment of casino licence
Gambling Act 2003
How to get a licence to run a casino in New Zealand
128: Application for casino operator’s licence
Gambling Act 2003
The Gambling Commission checks if you are suitable to run a casino when you apply for a licence.
129: Consideration of application
Gambling Act 2003
Getting a licence to run a casino: who can have one and what rules they must follow
130: Grant of casino operator’s licence
Gambling Act 2003
The Gambling Commission looks at your casino application to decide if they should approve it.
133: Consideration of application
Gambling Act 2003
How to renew a licence for a casino in New Zealand
134: Application for renewal of casino venue licence
Gambling Act 2003
How the Gambling Commission decides if a casino can keep its licence
135: Process for determining applications for renewal
Gambling Act 2003
How to renew a casino licence: meeting conditions and being good for the community
137: Renewal of casino venue licence
Gambling Act 2003
When a casino licence runs out after 25 years
138: Expiry of casino venue licence
Gambling Act 2003
Rules that casinos must follow to get or keep a licence
139: Conditions of casino licence
Gambling Act 2003
Rules for how casinos must run every day
141: Minimum operating standards in casino licences
Gambling Act 2003
What happens when you give back a casino licence
147: Surrender of casino licence
Gambling Act 2003
Licence holders must report people who gain significant control over their casino.
153: Responsibility of licensee aware of person with significant influence
Gambling Act 2003
The Secretary checks if someone is still suitable to work with a casino
155: Review of associated persons by Secretary
Gambling Act 2003
Some casino workers need a special approval to do their job
158: Certain casino employees must be approved
Gambling Act 2003
Apply for a certificate to show you can do a gambling job
159: Application for certificate of approval
Gambling Act 2003
The Secretary checks your application for a certificate of approval to make sure everything is okay.
160: Secretary must investigate application for certificate of approval
Gambling Act 2003
Starting casino work before your application is approved
165: Commencement of duties before issue of certificate of approval
Gambling Act 2003
Licence to sell alcohol in a casino
173: On-licences under Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Gambling Act 2003
Casino staff must get approved training before working games
176: Training for employees
Gambling Act 2003
Casinos must keep important papers and records on site for at least 7 years.
177: Books must be kept in casino venue
Gambling Act 2003
Casinos need approval for certain money-sharing agreements
181: Restriction on certain agreements
Gambling Act 2003
Banks must give information about casino accounts if asked
185: Bank may be required to provide information
Gambling Act 2003
A charity group can hire a special helper to run some gambling events, as long as they follow the rules.
188: Society may engage licensed promoter
Gambling Act 2003
Telling people you want a gambling licence
193: Notice of licence application
Gambling Act 2003
You must provide a guarantee from an approved person when applying for a licence to promote gambling.
195: Applicant must provide bond given by approved surety
Gambling Act 2003
When can you get a licence to run a gambling event?
201: Grounds for granting licensed promoter’s licence
Gambling Act 2003
How to renew your gambling promoter's licence
205: Renewal of licensed promoter’s licence
Gambling Act 2003
What happens if someone wants to stop or cancel your gambling licence
207: Procedure for suspending, cancelling, or refusing to renew licensed promoter’s licence
Gambling Act 2003
What happens to your licence if you appeal a decision about it
210: Consequences of appeal regarding licensed promoter’s licence
Gambling Act 2003
Don't use the name 'New Zealand Lotteries Commission' for your company or business without permission
267: Protection of name
Gambling Act 2003
The law lets the Secretary open bank accounts to manage money, with some rules to follow.
286: Bank accounts
Gambling Act 2003
Using lottery profits to make more money by investing them safely
287: Investment of money
Gambling Act 2003
Gambling machines must meet basic rules before you can use them
326: Gambling equipment must comply with minimum standards
Gambling Act 2003
Audits must follow standard rules to ensure accuracy and honesty.
108A: Audit must be carried out in accordance with auditing and assurance standards
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the law about farm chemicals and animal medicines
182: Amendments to Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Animal Products Act 1999 law
193: Other amendments to Animal Products Act 1999
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the law about boxing and wrestling
204: Amendment to Boxing and Wrestling Act 1981
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Commodity Levies Act 1990 to update decision-making rules and warrants
211: Amendments to Commodity Levies Act 1990
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001 to update search and surveillance rules
230: Amendments to Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes are made to the law that controls who can give immigration advice.
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
New rules for inspecting immigration advisers
261: New sections 56 and 57 substituted
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Meat Board Act 2004 law
281: Amendments to Meat Board Act 2004
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Meat Board Act 2004 to update search warrant rules
283: Amendments to Part 4 of Meat Board Act 2004
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the rules for buying and selling cars in New Zealand
284: Amendments to Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes are made to the law about investing in New Zealand from other countries.
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Overseas Investment Act 2005 to update its rules
286: Amendments to Overseas Investment Act 2005
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand law
296: Amendments to Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1989
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Wine Act 2003 law about wine in New Zealand
310: Amendments to Wine Act 2003
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Weights and Measures Act 1987 to update rules and decision-making processes
322: Amendments to Weights and Measures Act 1987
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Old telecommunications law from 1987 is no longer in force.
341: Telecommunications (Residual Provisions) Act 1987 repealed
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes are made to the law that helps keep an eye on financial markets.
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Financial Markets Authority Act 2011 to update search and surveillance rules
245: Amendments to Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
The Registrar can apply for a search warrant to enforce immigration adviser laws
263: New section 61A inserted
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes to the Insurance Law to update decision-making rules
265: Amendments to Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010
Civil Aviation Act 1990
Rules for airlines working together on international flights
91: Application of Commerce Act 1986
Civil Aviation Act 1990
Rules for working together to run airports and share airport facilities
94: Joint ventures
Civil Aviation Act 1990
Rules for financing and protecting big moving things across countries
Schedule 7: Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment
Civil Aviation Act 1990
Rules for buying, selling, and financing aeroplanes and other flying machines
Schedule 8: Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
What words in the Smokefree Environments Act mean
2: Interpretation
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Breaking smoking and vaping rules is against the law
17: Offences in respect of smoking and vaping
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules about who can advertise smoking and vaping products
23: Exemptions from advertising prohibition for retailers, vending machines, and Internet sellers
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
No tobacco signs or products can be shown in shops or vending machines.
23A: Display of tobacco products in or from sales outlets or vending machines generally prohibited
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
You can't sell tobacco with other things
29A: Sale of tobacco products with other products prohibited
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
People making decisions must not have personal interests that clash with their job
48: Conflict of interest
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules about sponsoring events with special tobacco deals
25A: Sponsoring activity involving exclusive supply arrangement
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
How to apply to sell vapes as a specialist retailer
14A: Application for approval as specialist vape retailer
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules for selling certain products: what you need to know about advertising and sales
21: Outline of this Part
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
What this part of the law is about: rules for selling certain products
22: Purposes of this Part
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
No advertising for some products allowed
23: Publishing regulated product advertisement prohibited
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Some publications and situations are allowed to advertise certain products even if there are rules against it
24: Specified publications exempt from advertising prohibition
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Some sellers can advertise regulated products in certain ways, like in shops or online, if they follow the rules.
25: Retailers, vending machines, and Internet sellers exempt from advertising prohibition in certain circumstances
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Who is responsible when advertising certain products, like vapes or cigarettes?
26: Liability of employees, employers, agents, and principals
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Don't promote smoking or vaping products to customers in your shop
27: Prohibited oral communications
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
No exclusive deals to sell regulated products at events
30: Sponsoring activity involving exclusive supply arrangement
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
You can't give away regulated products for free or cheap to get more customers.
33: Free distribution of regulated product prohibited
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
You can't sell or give away regulated products with other things as a bundle or package.
34: Distribution and supply of regulated product with other product prohibited
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Hide regulated products from public view in your shop
37: Regulated product must not be visible from place of business
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Show health warnings when selling certain products
38: Point-of-sale health information or warning signs
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Online sellers must show health warnings on their websites
39: Internet-sales health information or warnings
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Courts can ban repeat offenders from selling certain products, like vaping items, for breaking the law.
45: Court may order certain repeat offenders not to sell regulated product
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Vending machines selling certain products must show health warning messages.
48: Automatic vending machines must display health messages required by or under this Act
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules for packaging of certain products to keep you safe
50: Standardised packaging of regulated products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
What information must be on packets of certain products, like cigarettes, to help keep you safe and informed?
52: Messages and information required for regulated product package
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
The boss of health can ask to check packaging and labels of some products to make sure they are safe
57: Director-General may require testing or further testing
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
You must tell the government about a product before you can sell it.
60: Notifier must not sell product unless it has been notified
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
You must live in New Zealand or have a New Zealand company to notify a regulated product.
61: Notifier must be New Zealand resident or company registered in New Zealand
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Checking a product meets the rules before selling it in New Zealand
62: Pre-notification requirements
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules for shops that sell vapes and tobacco in New Zealand
65: Obligations of retailers
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
When you need to update a product's notification if it changes in a big way
67: When notifiable product must be renotified
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Some things are not allowed in certain products to keep people safe
68: Notifiable product must not contain prohibited substance, prohibited flavour, or colouring substance
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Some products can't have too much of certain substances in them for safety reasons.
69: Substances in notifiable product must not exceed maximum limits
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
The government can warn people about a product that might be harmful.
72: Director-General may issue warning
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
When a product is not safe, the government can make the maker take it back.
73: Recall
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
The boss can temporarily stop a product from being sold if it's thought to be harmful or doesn't follow the rules.
74: Director-General may suspend product notification
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Stopping a product from being sold because it's harmful or doesn't follow the rules
75: Cancellation of product notification
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Challenging a decision to stop selling a product
76: Appeals against decision to suspend or cancel product notification
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules made by the Governor-General to help keep people safe and healthy around certain products.
81: Regulations
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules for selling certain products must be followed, with details like signs and sales information
82: Regulations under section 81
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules for how cigarette packets and other products look and what information they must show
83: Regulations for standardised packaging (including messages and information)
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules about products that can harm people, like what's safe and what flavours are allowed
84: Regulations relating to notifiable products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Charges for some things related to smokefree products and vaping
85: Regulations imposing fees
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Charges for selling certain products to help cover government costs
86: Regulations imposing levies
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
People who make or sell certain products must report sales and test results to the government each year.
100: Annual reporting requirements for manufacturers, importers, distributors, and retailers of regulated products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Only approved shops can sell smoked tobacco products
20G: Sale of smoked tobacco products other than by approved smoked tobacco retailer prohibited
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Getting approval to sell smoked tobacco products is no longer allowed under the law.
20I: Grant of approval as smoked tobacco retailer
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
The boss can cancel a special permission for vaping products
20K: Director-General may cancel approval
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
How to apply to sell vaping products: the Director-General makes the rules and shares them publicly.
20L: Director-General to determine and publish application process
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Limit on shops that can sell smoked tobacco products
20O: Director-General to ensure maximum numbers of approved smoked tobacco retail premises not exceeded
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
How to get approval to sell vaping products from a specialist vape shop
20P: Application for approval as specialist vape retailer
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules to follow if your vaping product shop is approved
20Q: Conditions of approval granted under section 20P
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Sellers of notifiable products must tell the government each year where they sell these products.
20R: Obligation of person selling notifiable products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Tobacco sellers must tell the government each year that they are selling tobacco products.
20S: Obligation of distributor in respect of smoked tobacco products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Smoked tobacco products must be approved before they can be sold.
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Getting permission to sell or import smoked tobacco products
57C: Application for approval for sale or import of smoked tobacco products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Rules for what can and can't be in smoked tobacco products
57F: Limits on constituents of smoked tobacco products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Tobacco product makers must test their products yearly to check they meet the law's rules.
57G: Annual testing for constituents of smoked tobacco products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Companies must test certain products every year to check what's in them.
69A: Annual testing for constituents of notifiable products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Keep records of the products you make or sell for three years, or you might get a fine.
101: Record-keeping requirements for regulated products
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
Challenging a decision to stop a product being sold
102: Appeals against decision to suspend or cancel product approval or notification
Resource Management Act 1991
Allows fish farmers to keep using the sea even if the special area for fish farming is gone
12B: Continuation of coastal permit for aquaculture activities if aquaculture management area ceases to exist
Resource Management Act 1991
Rules for extending or waiving time limits under the Resource Management Act
37A: Requirements for waivers and extensions
Resource Management Act 1991
A promise to fix or clean up after a project, with money set aside to ensure it happens
108A: Bonds
Resource Management Act 1991
The person in charge of fish farming can stop people from asking to use the sea for a while if there are too many requests or worries about fish health.
165ZD: Minister of Aquaculture may suspend applications to occupy common marine and coastal area for purposes of aquaculture activities
Resource Management Act 1991
Rules about special types of property sharing between companies and people are no longer used.
244: Company leases and cross leases
Resource Management Act 1991
Port companies can use coastal areas for business if they follow the rules and get permission
384A: Right of port companies to occupy coastal marine area
Resource Management Act 1991
Getting a permit to release contaminants into the air if you already have Clean Air Act approval
391A: Resource consents following approval under Clean Air Act 1972
Resource Management Act 1991
Getting a certificate to use someone else's land for mining when you have a permit
417: Permits over land other than that of holders to be produced in Land Transfer Office
Resource Management Act 1991
Introduction to rules for using New Zealand's coastal areas
165A: Overview
Resource Management Act 1991
When you can start aquaculture activities in the coastal area after getting a coastal permit
116A: When coastal permit for aquaculture activities may commence
Resource Management Act 1991
A coastal permit for fish farming must say how long it lasts, usually between 20 and 35 years.
123A: Duration of consent for aquaculture activities
Resource Management Act 1991
People can ask to start fish farming in the sea if they also ask to change the rules about what's allowed there.
165ZN: Application for coastal permit to undertake aquaculture activities
Resource Management Act 1991
Rules for changing coastal plans to manage fish farming and decide who gets to do it
360A: Regulations amending regional coastal plans in relation to aquaculture activities
Resource Management Act 1991
Special reasons why cities can limit building in non-residential areas
77O: Qualifying matters in application of intensification policies to urban non-residential areas
Resource Management Act 1991
The person in charge of fish farms can stop people from asking to use the sea for a while if there are problems or too many people want to use it.
165ZDA: Minister of Aquaculture may suspend applications to occupy common marine and coastal area for purposes of aquaculture activities on own initiative
Resource Management Act 1991
Coastal permits for marine farms can be extended for up to 20 years or until the end of 2050, whichever comes first.
165ZFHC: Extension of coastal permits for marine farms
Resource Management Act 1991
The review aims to improve how we look after the sea and coast while letting fish farms keep working.
165ZFHJ: Purpose of review
Child Support Act 1991
The law changed how some people get paid first when a company runs out of money
245: Preferential payments
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Who counts as part of an electricity company under the law
Schedule 2: When person is involved in industry participant for purposes of section 6A
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules for making sure everyone gets electricity safely and fairly
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Explaining important words and roles in electricity rules
5: Interpretation
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules for managing electricity companies and keeping the lights on
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This law explains who counts as part of the electricity industry
7: Industry participants
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Transpower manages New Zealand's electricity system and keeps it running smoothly
8: Transpower is system operator
Electricity Industry Act 2010
You must sign up and follow the rules if you work with electricity
9: Obligation to register and comply with Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Some people or groups don't have to sign up as electricity industry participants
10: Exemption from obligation to register
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Sometimes you don't have to follow the Electricity Industry Code
11: Exemption from obligation to comply with Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The group in charge of making sure electricity is managed properly
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The government creates a special group to manage electricity
12: Authority established
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This explains who can be part of the Electricity Authority and how they are chosen
13: Membership of Authority
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Members of the Electricity Authority must work without favouring any group or company
14: Independence of members of Authority
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Electricity Authority's main tasks: making electricity work well for everyone and protecting home and small business users
15: Objectives of Authority
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Electricity Authority's main jobs and responsibilities in New Zealand
16: Functions of Authority
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The government tells the Electricity Authority how to manage electricity
17: Statements of government policy
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Minister can ask for a review of the electricity industry
18: Reviews on request by Minister
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Groups that give advice about keeping the electricity system safe and working well
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules for setting up and working with advisory groups
19: Charter about advisory groups
Electricity Industry Act 2010
A group that helps keep the electricity system safe and working well
20: Security and Reliability Council
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Authority must create groups of experts to help make rules for electricity
21: Other advisory groups
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules for people who give advice about electricity to the government
22: Application of Crown Entities Act 2004
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Rulings Panel keeps working as before
23: Continuation of Rulings Panel
Electricity Industry Act 2010
How the Rulings Panel is set up and who can be on it
24: Membership of Rulings Panel
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Paying for the Rulings Panel and its members
26: Funding of Rulings Panel and remuneration of members
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Authority keeps a list of electricity industry people and companies
27: Register of industry participants
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Moving old electricity industry information to a new list
28: Transfer of old information to register
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Signing up and keeping your details up to date
29: Registration and requirement to update information
Electricity Industry Act 2010
How to stop being a registered electricity industry participant
30: Ceasing to be registered
Electricity Industry Act 2010
You can get in trouble if you don't sign up or keep your information up to date as an electricity industry member
31: Offences relating to registration
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Code sets rules for the electricity industry to work better
32: Content of Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Electricity Industry Code is an official set of rules that must be published properly
33: Status of Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This section about the first rules for electricity is no longer part of the law
34: Content of initial Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The rule about checking new electricity rules was removed
35: Certification of draft Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This part explains when the electricity rules would start, but it's not used anymore.
36: Code comes into force
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The rules about sharing the Electricity Code were removed
37: Making Code accessible
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The group in charge can change the rules about electricity
38: Authority amends Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Authority must ask people what they think about planned changes to the Code
39: Consultation on proposed amendments
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Quick changes to electricity rules for important reasons
40: Urgent amendments to Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Authority must make and share rules about asking for people's opinions on changes
41: Authority to publish consultation charter
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This section about new rules for electricity has been removed from the law
42: Specific new matters to be in Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Minister's power to add new things to the electricity rules has been removed
43: Minister may amend Code to include new matters
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules for agreements on connecting to and using the national power grid
44: Transmission agreements
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Authority can ask the court to temporarily stop someone from breaking the rules
51: Interim injunctions
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Time limits for dealing with electricity industry rule breaks
52: Limitation periods for breaches of Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Making things right when someone breaks the electricity rules
54: Remedial orders for breach of Code
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Limits on what you can do if someone breaks the electricity rules
55: Restrictions on remedies
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Fines for breaking electricity industry rules
56: Pecuniary penalty orders
Electricity Industry Act 2010
You must follow certain orders from the Rulings Panel or you might get in trouble
57: Offence to breach certain orders of Rulings Panel
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules for stopping companies from working in the electricity industry if they break important rules
58: Suspension and termination for breach of certain Rulings Panel orders
Electricity Industry Act 2010
What happens when someone breaks electricity industry rules and gets suspended or kicked out
59: Effect of suspension and termination orders
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Breaking rules about stopping or ending someone's work in the electricity industry is against the law
60: Offences relating to suspension and termination orders
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules for how the Rulings Panel makes and changes orders
62: Orders generally
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules about challenging decisions in the electricity industry
Electricity Industry Act 2010
You can ask a higher court to check if the Rulings Panel was allowed to make a decision about you
63: Appeal on ground of lack of jurisdiction
Electricity Industry Act 2010
You can challenge certain Rulings Panel decisions in the High Court
65: Appeal against certain orders of Rulings Panel
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules about following decisions while waiting for an appeal
69: Provisions pending determination of appeal
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This part explains why you can't own both power plants and power lines
72: Purpose of this Part
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This law stops electricity delivery companies from also making too much electricity
73: Ownership separation
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This rule about what 'involved in' means was taken out of the law
74: Meaning of involved in
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Electricity companies can now be owned together with other companies
75: Ownership separation
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules for keeping some electricity companies separate and making sure they treat each other fairly
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules about separating electricity companies have been removed
76: Corporate separation and arm's-length rules applying to distributors and connected generators and connected retailers
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules about keeping electricity distribution separate from some types of electricity generation
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This part about electricity companies sharing equipment was removed from the law
77: Use-of-systems agreements
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Old rule about paying to switch electricity companies no longer exists
78: Person involved in distributor must not pay for transfer of retail customers to connected retailers
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This rule about fair payments from electricity companies no longer exists
79: No discrimination when paying rebates or dividends
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Money fines for breaking electricity industry rules
80: Pecuniary penalties
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The court can stop people from breaking electricity rules and protect businesses
81: Injunctions
Electricity Industry Act 2010
You might have to pay if you break a rule and someone loses something
82: Actions for damages
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The High Court can change agreements and give instructions if you break electricity industry rules
83: Other powers to give directions, reopen agreements
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules for legal cases about electricity industry problems
84: Miscellaneous provisions relating to civil proceedings under this Part
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules from the Commerce Act guide decisions in electricity matters
85: Application of Commerce Act 1986 provisions
Electricity Industry Act 2010
You can take more than one type of legal action for the same issue
86: Additional proceedings
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This law affects people outside New Zealand who work with NZ electricity companies
87: Application to persons outside New Zealand
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules about sharing information with the electricity authority
Electricity Industry Act 2010
This rule about sharing information with the Electricity Authority no longer applies
88: Disclosure of information to Authority
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Directors no longer need to report on fair dealing rules
89: Directors must report compliance with arm’s-length rules
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Rules about when power companies can make and deliver electricity
Electricity Industry Act 2010
Explaining when rules can be changed for some electricity businesses
90: Exemptions
Electricity Industry Act 2010
The Commerce Act 1986 still applies to this part of the law
91: Application of Commerce Act 1986
Wildlife Act 1953
Plans to help manage and protect animal populations
14F: Population management plans
Wildlife Act 1953
Company bosses can be blamed if their company breaks wildlife rules
65A: Liability of directors and managers
Electricity Act 1992
The old rule about sharing why some people don't have to follow electricity laws was removed
62J: Publication of exemption and reasons
Electricity Act 1992
This rule about emergency permissions has been removed from the law
62L: Commission may grant temporary emergency exemption
Electricity Act 1992
Old rule about using information is no longer in effect
62N: Commission may use information collected or provided under regulations or rules
Electricity Act 1992
This provision names the law and explains when it starts
1: Short Title and commencement
Electricity Act 1992
This law applies to everyone, including the government
3: Act to bind the Crown
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for keeping people safe around electricity and what to do when accidents happen
Electricity Act 1992
Minister can name electricity providers as special operators
4: Declaration of electricity distributors as electricity operators
Electricity Act 1992
The Minister can name electricity makers as special operators
4A: Declaration of electricity generators as electricity operators
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe makes sure electricity is safe and people follow the rules
5: Functions of WorkSafe
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe can check electrical things to make sure they're safe
6: Inspection of works, etc
Electricity Act 1992
Inspector writes report and gives copies to everyone who needs it
7: Report to be compiled on inspection
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe can check and fix dangerous electrical things to keep you safe
8: Special powers of WorkSafe
Electricity Act 1992
Notices or requirements are paused if you object, with some exceptions
10: Effect of notice or requirement pending hearing
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe can make you follow safety rules right away if it's dangerous
13: WorkSafe may require immediate compliance
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for telling people about electrical accidents
16: Notification of accidents
Electricity Act 1992
Sharing information about electricity accidents
16A: Transfer of accident information
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for people who work with electricity and how they can use or fix power lines on different lands
Electricity Act 1992
Electrical equipment on someone else's land stays there until removed
22: Protection of existing works
Electricity Act 1992
Landowners don't have to look after power lines on their property
22A: Owners of land not responsible for maintenance
Electricity Act 1992
You can go onto land to check or fix electrical equipment that's already there
23: Rights of entry in respect of existing works
Electricity Act 1992
Power company needs to tell you before fixing or finishing electrical work on your property
23A: Line owner must give written notice of intention to maintain or complete existing works
Electricity Act 1992
Power line owners must tell landowners before they come to check their equipment
23B: Line owner must give notice of intention to inspect or operate existing works
Electricity Act 1992
Entering someone's property without notice during electrical emergencies
23C: Notice in emergencies
Electricity Act 1992
Landowners can make fair rules about electricity companies coming onto their property
23D: Land owner may set reasonable conditions on line owner's entry
Electricity Act 1992
Existing agreements about electrical works on land stay in place
23E: Agreements preserved
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for electricity companies working on roads
24: Construction or maintenance of works on roads
Electricity Act 1992
Electricity companies must tell others before they work on roads
25: Notice to be given before work undertaken
Electricity Act 1992
Breaking electricity rules can lead to fines and compensation payments
26: Offence
Electricity Act 1992
You can challenge rules set for your electricity work if you think they're unfair
27: Appeals in relation to conditions imposed
Electricity Act 1992
How the court decides appeals about electricity decisions
28: Determination of appeals
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for putting electrical equipment on roads without paying rent
30: Charging for access to road reserve
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for electricity companies working on level crossings
31: Rights of entry in respect of level crossings
Electricity Act 1992
Local authorities can ask you to move electrical works on roads
32: Local authority, etc, may require works to be moved
Electricity Act 1992
Who pays for electrical work required by law
33: Cost of work required under section 32
Electricity Act 1992
Parts of this law are more important than a road law from 1989
34: Government Roading Powers Act 1989 not to apply
Electricity Act 1992
Private land owners can move electrical works on their property if they follow certain rules
35: Owners and occupiers of private land may move works
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe makes rules to keep people safe around electricity
36: Issue of electrical code of practice
Electricity Act 1992
Electrical codes can include official standards
37: Code may incorporate official standards by reference
Electricity Act 1992
Minister must agree to electrical rules after asking people what they think
38: Code to be approved by Minister
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe makes sure everyone can see or buy the electrical safety rules
39: Availability of codes
Electricity Act 1992
WorkSafe can quickly change electrical safety rules in emergencies
40: Emergency amendment of code
Electricity Act 1992
How to refer to the rules for safe electrical work
41: Citation of code
Electricity Act 1992
How to prove an electrical code of practice is real in court
42: Proof of code
Electricity Act 1992
Old electrical rules are still used under the new law
43: Codes promulgated under Electricity Act 1968
Electricity Act 1992
This rule about how to charge for bringing electricity to farms is no longer used
50: Application of levies
Electricity Act 1992
Old rule about rural electricity groups no longer exists
52: Transitional provision relating to membership of Council
Electricity Act 1992
The rules about ending the council for rural electricity have been removed
54: Dissolution of Council
Electricity Act 1992
Getting paid if electrical work hurts your land
57: Compensation for damage
Electricity Act 1992
Money for trees cut down because of power lines
58: Compensation for trees and vegetation removed
Electricity Act 1992
Telling WorkSafe about new electrical projects
59: Returns relating to construction of works, etc
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for giving out safe and good electricity
60: Standards for electricity supply
Electricity Act 1992
Rules to keep people safe when using electricity
61: Safety requirements
Electricity Act 1992
This rule about keeping the power on doesn't exist anymore
62: Continuance of supply
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about how much electricity costs and what happens if someone breaks those rules
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about electricity prices were removed from the law
63: Regulations relating to price of electricity
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about doing wrong things with electricity prices were removed from the law
65: Offences
Electricity Act 1992
This rule about other price control laws was removed and no longer applies
66: Other Acts relating to price control not affected
Electricity Act 1992
What a consumer means for electricity suppliers (no longer used)
68: Definition of consumer for purposes of this Part
Electricity Act 1992
You don't need a special permit to provide electricity anymore
69: Licence to supply electricity
Electricity Act 1992
This rule about wrongdoing for electricity suppliers no longer exists
70: Offence
Electricity Act 1992
Old rules about who could get electricity in different areas have changed
71: Supply of electricity to consumers outside supply area
Electricity Act 1992
This rule about electricity companies having to give people power doesn't exist anymore
72: Duty to supply
Electricity Act 1992
This part of the law was removed in 1994 and doesn't apply anymore
73: Expiry of this Part
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about who can do electrical work and when special permission is needed
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about who can do special electrical work or help with it
74: Restrictions on doing or assisting with prescribed electrical work
Electricity Act 1992
The Board can give special permission to skip some rules for electrical work
75: Board may exempt person or class of persons from section 74
Electricity Act 1992
You can do some electrical work if someone qualified watches over you
76: Exemption for work done under supervision
Electricity Act 1992
Trainees can do some electrical work while learning to be an electrician
77: Exemption for trainees
Electricity Act 1992
Board can give special certificates for specific purposes
78: Board may issue limited certificate for purposes of section 77
Electricity Act 1992
The board can take away your special permission after hearing your side
81: Board may cancel application of exemption to any person
Electricity Act 1992
Checking and approving electrical work before it's used
82: Testing, certification, and inspection
Electricity Act 1992
Inspectors can enter buildings to check electrical work for safety
83: Power of entry
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for dealing with complaints about people who work with electricity
Electricity Act 1992
Employer licences let workers do special electrical jobs
117: Prescribed electrical work may be done under employer licence
Electricity Act 1992
How long an employer's electricity licence lasts
118: Duration of employer licence
Electricity Act 1992
How the Board can change or take away a company's permission to do electrical work
120: Cancellation, suspension, and other actions in relation to employer licences
Electricity Act 1992
Board listens to employer's side before making decisions
121: Board must give employer licence holder reasonable opportunity to be heard
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about paying fines and following orders when the Board takes action against you
122: Miscellaneous provisions concerning actions under section 120
Electricity Act 1992
The Board can check workplaces to make sure electrical work is safe and follows the rules
123: Powers of inspection
Electricity Act 1992
The Board keeps a list of all electrical workers
124: Register of electrical workers
Electricity Act 1992
Registrar writes down important information about electrical workers and companies
125: Registrar must enter matters in register
Electricity Act 1992
The register helps people find and check information about electricians and electrical workers
126: Purpose of register
Electricity Act 1992
How the electrical workers register is kept and accessed
127: Form of register
Electricity Act 1992
What important information about electrical workers is kept in a special list?
128: Matters to be contained in register
Electricity Act 1992
Old electrical worker records are saved but don't give work rights
129: Historical registration and licence information and documentation to be included in register
Electricity Act 1992
Let the Registrar know if you move house within 3 months
130: Duty to notify change of address
Electricity Act 1992
Tell the Registrar if you change your name
131: Duty to notify change of name
Corrections Act 2004
Contractors must pay back the government if their actions cause trouble or damage.
199B: Liability of contractor
Corrections Act 2004
What security companies must do when they have a contract to keep people safe
167: Requirements of security contracts
Corrections Act 2004
Security contractors are responsible for their actions and must pay for any damage they cause
168: Liability of security contractors
Corrections Act 2004
When security contractors give jobs to others, they need the boss's written okay and must follow the rules.
169: Subcontractors
Food Act 2014
What the Food Act 2014 is about and how it keeps food safe in New Zealand
3: Overview
Food Act 2014
The Purpose of the Food Act 2014 is to keep food safe for you to eat in New Zealand.
4: Purpose
Food Act 2014
What 'processing and handling' of food for sale means
11: Meaning of processing and handling
Food Act 2014
What makes food safe and suitable for you to eat
12: Meaning of safety and suitability
Food Act 2014
'What we mean by selling food' means giving food to people to eat, or to businesses to use, in exchange for something, even if it's not money.
13: Meaning of sale
Food Act 2014
Food Act 2014
How the Minister, chief executive, and councils work together under the Food Act
15: Principles governing relationships between Minister, chief executive, and territorial authorities
Food Act 2014
Important rules to keep food safe for everyone to eat
16: Principles to be applied in performing functions or duties, or exercising powers, under this Act
Food Act 2014
The Minister is in charge of keeping food safe to eat and makes important decisions about food rules.
17: Role of Minister
Food Act 2014
The boss of food safety: what the chief executive does to keep your food safe
18: Role of chief executive
Food Act 2014
What councils do to keep food safe in their area
19: Role of territorial authorities
Food Act 2014
Food Act 2014
Sorting food businesses into groups to keep people safe from bad food
21: Classification of food sectors for purpose of assigning applicable risk-based measures
Food Act 2014
The Governor-General can change some food rules with the Minister's advice.
22: Power to amend Schedules 1 to 3 by Order in Council
Food Act 2014
What food safety rules apply to your business if it's not on the main lists?
23: Determining applicable risk-based measure for food businesses that come within food sectors not classified in Schedules 1 to 3
Food Act 2014
Figuring out food safety rules for businesses that do multiple food things
25: Determining applicable risk-based measure for food businesses that overlap 2 or more food sectors
Food Act 2014
You can choose a food control plan for your food business, even if it's low risk.
26: Operator of food business may choose to operate under food control plan even if food business is in food sector classified under lower level of risk
Food Act 2014
Follow the food safety rules that apply to your type of food business to keep people safe.
28: Requirement to operate under applicable risk-based measure
Food Act 2014
Food Act 2014
A food control plan helps your food business keep food safe for people to eat.
36: Food control plan: general description
Food Act 2014
What a food control plan covers: keeping food safe for one or many businesses
37: Food control plan: coverage
Food Act 2014
The boss of a government department can make a free template to help food businesses follow the rules.
39: Food control plan: chief executive's power to issue official template or model
Food Act 2014
The boss of a government department can approve a plan to keep food safe that someone else created.
40: Food control plan: chief executive's power to approve official template or model developed by third party
Food Act 2014
What your food control plan should look like on paper
41: Food control plan: form
Food Act 2014
The Food Act 2014 rules always come first if they disagree with your food control plan.
49: Requirements of Act to prevail in cases of inconsistency with registered food control plan
Food Act 2014
What food businesses with a safety plan must do to keep food safe
50: Duties of operators of registered food control plans
Food Act 2014
Tell the registration authority about big changes to your food control plan
51: Operator of registered food control plan must notify registration authority of significant change in circumstances
Food Act 2014
Who to apply to when registering a food control plan
52: Application for registration: who is appropriate registration authority
Food Act 2014
How to apply to register a food control plan in writing
53: Application for registration: form and content
Food Act 2014
The registration authority can say no to your application if you don't follow the rules.
54: Registration authority may refuse to process application for registration
Food Act 2014
They can ask for more details when you apply to register a food plan.
55: Registration authority may require further information
Food Act 2014
What you need to do to register a food safety plan
56: Criteria for registration of food control plan
Food Act 2014
When your food control plan is not approved
57: Refusal to register food control plan
Food Act 2014
Tell the registration authority about big changes to your food control plan
58: Applicants for registration must notify registration authority of significant change in circumstances
Food Act 2014
What happens when you sign up for a food control plan
59: Registration of food control plan
Food Act 2014
The people in charge can add rules when you register a food safety plan.
60: Registration authority may impose conditions on registration of food control plan
Food Act 2014
The government can temporarily stop a food business from operating if it's not following the rules or might be harming people's health.
62: Mandatory suspension
Food Act 2014
The registration authority can extend a food business's suspension if needed.
63: Registration authority may extend mandatory suspension
Food Act 2014
When a food business breaks the rules, the registration can be cancelled to keep food safe.
67: Cancellation of registration
Food Act 2014
When a food plan's registration is cancelled, it stops on a date chosen by the authorities.
68: Effective date of cancellation
Food Act 2014
What happens if your food business registration is cancelled?
69: Effect of cancellation of registration
Food Act 2014
Stopping a food business from being part of a food safety plan
70: Removal of food business from coverage of food control plan
Food Act 2014
What happens when you want to cancel your food business registration
71: Surrender of registration
Food Act 2014
When your food registration ends, this is when it officially stops being valid.
72: Effective date of surrender
Food Act 2014
Food Act 2014
What the national food programme is and what it does
73: Purpose of this subpart
Food Act 2014
Keeping Food Safe: Rules for Food Businesses to Follow
74: National programme: general description
Food Act 2014
How the government can make food businesses follow national food safety rules
75: How national programme may be imposed
Food Act 2014
Rules about national food programmes to keep you safe
76: Regulations and notices about national programmes
Food Act 2014
The national food programme is still valid even if it lets certain people make decisions or set rules.
77: National programme not invalid on certain grounds
Food Act 2014
National food programme rules take priority if they disagree with other food rules.
78: Requirements of national programme to prevail in cases of inconsistency with other regulations or notices made under this Act
Food Act 2014
Rules for food businesses in a national programme
80: Duties of operators of food businesses subject to national programme
Food Act 2014
Tell the registration authority about big changes to your food business
81: Operators of food businesses subject to national programme must notify registration authority of significant change in circumstances
Food Act 2014
Some food businesses must register if they are part of a national programme.
Food Act 2014
When a food business is no longer registered, it gets taken off the public list.
94: Removal from public register
Food Act 2014
Food Act 2014
Checking if food is safe to eat through a monitoring programme
101: Monitoring programme: general description
Food Act 2014
What a food monitoring programme covers and how it works
102: Monitoring programme: scope
Food Act 2014
The boss of a food safety team can create rules to help keep food safe.
104: Chief executive may specify certain matters by notice
Food Act 2014
A food safety monitoring programme is still valid even if it lets certain people make decisions or set rules.
105: Monitoring programme not invalid on certain grounds
Building Act 2004
A group that checks building permits can charge money for looking at how well permit offices do their job.
249A: Fees for audits
Building Act 2004
A special group can ask for money when they check if another group is doing a good job with building products.
262A: Fees for audits
Building Act 2004
Rules for special building designs that need expert approval before they can be used in many places
30C: Applications for national multiple-use approval relating to design work that is restricted building work
Building Act 2004
Rules for when the boss can give permission to use building plans more than once
30F: Issue of national multiple-use approval
Building Act 2004
This section explains what the different parts of the Building Act are about and how they work together.
5: Overview
Building Act 2004
A building is any structure, including things attached to it, that people or animals can use or live in.
8: Building: what it means and includes
Building Act 2004
Things that are not counted as buildings under the law, like power poles, cranes, boats, and scaffolding.
9: Building: what it does not include
Building Act 2004
This explains what building officials and local councils do to make sure buildings are safe and follow the rules.
12: Role of building consent authority and territorial authority
Building Act 2004
This part explains the rules for building work, including safety, permits, and inspections.
15: Outline of this Part
Building Act 2004
The building code explains what buildings need to do and how well they need to work.
16: Building code: purpose
Building Act 2004
Any construction or building changes must follow the rules in the building code, even if you don't need special permission.
17: All building work must comply with building code
Building Act 2004
The law says you only need to follow the building code rules, not any extra or stricter rules, when doing building work.
18: Building work not required to achieve performance criteria additional to or more restrictive than building code
Building Act 2004
The building authority must accept different ways to show that a building follows the rules.
19: How compliance with building code is established
Building Act 2004
Rules can say there's only one way to follow building rules, like using special products or methods.
20: Regulations may specify that there is only 1 means of complying with building code
Building Act 2004
Rules tell you how to build safely, but if there are no rules, you can choose how to follow the building code.
21: What happens if regulations specifying that there is only 1 means of complying with building code are made or not made
Building Act 2004
The head building person can make special rules that help people follow the building rules properly.
22: Acceptable solution or verification method for use in establishing compliance with building code
Building Act 2004
Using an approved plan is one way, but not the only way, to follow building rules.
23: Effect of acceptable solution or verification method
Building Act 2004
The person in charge can change or remove the rules for building things whenever they want.
24: Chief executive may amend or revoke acceptable solution or verification method
Building Act 2004
You can get in big trouble if you use banned building stuff.
27: Offence to use building product or building method in breach of ban under section 26
Building Act 2004
Building officials can't approve certain building activities if it breaks rules about banned things
28: Limits on certain powers of building consent authority in cases involving bans under section 26
Building Act 2004
Rules for making sure building methods and materials are safe and allowed
Building Act 2004
Rules for making or changing building rules, warnings, and bans to keep people safe
29: Procedural requirements for acceptable solutions, verification methods, warnings, and bans
Building Act 2004
You must get permission before you build anything, or you could be punished.
40: Building work not to be carried out without consent
Building Act 2004
Sometimes you don't need permission to build or change things
41: Building consent not required in certain cases
Building Act 2004
You don't need permission for most energy work, but some special cases still need approval.
43: Building consent not required for energy work
Building Act 2004
You need to fill out a special form and provide plans and other important information to ask for permission to build something.
45: How to apply for building consent
Building Act 2004
How the government decides if you can build something within a set time
48: Processing application for building consent
Building Act 2004
You pay a levy when your building consent is approved to help fund building sector work.
53: Applicant for building consent liable to pay levy
Building Act 2004
The building office must tell you how much money you need to pay before they say yes to your building plans.
54: Building consent authority must advise applicant of amount of levy payable
Building Act 2004
When you build in steps, you need to count the cost of earlier work when figuring out how much to pay for the building fee.
57: Payment of levy if building work completed in stages
Building Act 2004
Paying a levy when you approve a building consent as a stand-alone authority
58: Liability to pay levy: stand-alone building consent authority
Building Act 2004
The chief executive can get back unpaid levies from councils or building consent authorities that don't pay on time.
61: Chief executive may recover unpaid levies from territorial authority or stand-alone building consent authority
Building Act 2004
The boss can ask someone to check if people are paying the building money correctly
65: Chief executive may enter into agreements for auditing certain information
Building Act 2004
The boss must check every few years if the money collected is enough to do their job
66: Chief executive must review levy
Building Act 2004
This law explains how to ask for changes to energy rules when building something
70: Applications relating to energy work
Building Act 2004
The law allows exceptions to the rule about building on multiple pieces of land in some special cases.
76: Exemption from section 75
Building Act 2004
When a note is made on land records, you can't sell or rent parts of the land separately.
79: Effect of entry recorded on record of title
Building Act 2004
A special builder must write down what they did and give it to the owner and the local council.
88: Licensed building practitioner to provide record of work in respect of restricted building work
Building Act 2004
If a builder sees that work isn't following the plan, they must tell the council and the owner right away.
89: Licensed building practitioner must notify building consent authority of breaches of building consent
Building Act 2004
This law explains how you ask for a certificate to show your building work follows the rules.
92: Application for code compliance certificate
Building Act 2004
The building authority has to decide quickly if your building is safe and follows the rules.
93: Time in which building consent authority must decide whether to issue code compliance certificate
Building Act 2004
This part explains what a building official must check before they can say a building is safe and follows the rules.
94: Matters for consideration by building consent authority in deciding issue of code compliance certificate
Building Act 2004
Papers that say a building is okay even if it was built without permission
Building Act 2004
You need to fill out a special form, provide plans, pay fees, and include other important information when asking for a certificate that says your building work is okay.
97: How to apply for certificate of acceptance
Building Act 2004
Lists of important safety features that buildings must have and maintain
Building Act 2004
Buildings need a special checklist to make sure they're safe, especially if they have special equipment or a cable car.
100: Requirement for compliance schedule
Building Act 2004
You must get a special safety checklist for your building or you could be fined.
101: Owner must comply with requirement for compliance schedule
Building Act 2004
This explains what must be included in a list of building safety checks.
103: Content of compliance schedule
Building Act 2004
Building owners must keep systems working, give yearly proof, and show important information to users.
105: Obligations of owner if compliance schedule is issued
Building Act 2004
Owners can ask to change their building's safety checklist if they think it needs updating.
106: Application by owner for amendment to compliance schedule
Building Act 2004
A yearly certificate to prove your building's safety systems are working correctly
108: Annual building warrant of fitness
Building Act 2004
The building owner must get yearly reports about safety checks and keep them for two years
110: Owner must obtain reports on compliance schedule
Building Act 2004
This law explains how to make changes to old buildings while keeping them safe and accessible for everyone.
112: Alterations to existing buildings
Building Act 2004
Rules for changing how a building is used to make sure it's safe and follows the building code
115: Code compliance requirements: change of use
Building Act 2004
Tearing down buildings can be part of fixing dangerous or unhealthy buildings.
127: Building work includes demolition of building
Building Act 2004
Rules for when dam owners must sort their dams into groups
134: When owner must classify dam
Building Act 2004
Dam owners must create and check safety plans for medium and high-risk dams, or face fines.
140: Requirement for dam safety assurance programme
Building Act 2004
The rules say what must be included in a plan to keep dams safe.
141: Content of dam safety assurance programme
Building Act 2004
The person who owns a dam must give the local government a safety plan and a certificate from an expert to show the dam is safe.
142: Owner must provide dam safety assurance programme to regional authority
Building Act 2004
If a local council says no to a dam safety plan, they must tell the dam owner to get an expert to check it again
145: Regional authority must require re-audit of dam safety assurance programme that it refuses to approve
Building Act 2004
A special engineer who checks dams and has the right skills, but doesn't own or make money from the dam.
149: Who is recognised engineer
Building Act 2004
When someone breaks building rules, they get a special note telling them to fix the problem
164: Issue of notice to fix
Building Act 2004
The boss must create a group of building experts to give advice, making sure they have different skills and backgrounds.
172: Appointment of building advisory panel
Building Act 2004
A group of experts gives special help to the boss, but not about the boss's job unless asked.
173: Function of panel
Building Act 2004
While the boss decides, most actions are paused, but some safety steps can still happen.
183: Decision or exercise of power suspended until determination made
Building Act 2004
The boss can decide who pays for the costs when people disagree about building rules.
190: Parties' costs
Building Act 2004
The boss can give special permission to groups to check and approve building plans.
Building Act 2004
The boss needs to check certain things before adding someone to the list of people who can give building permission.
192: Criteria for registration
Building Act 2004
This law explains how to ask for permission to be a building helper
194: Application for registration
Building Act 2004
This part explains what certain words mean when talking about complaints against building groups.
200: Interpretation
Building Act 2004
This explains when someone can get in trouble for not doing their job properly in building and construction.
201: Grounds for disciplinary action
Building Act 2004
You can tell the boss if you think someone did something wrong in their building work.
202: Complaints may be made to chief executive
Building Act 2004
The chief executive can check on building authorities and experts, ask for information, and inspect places to make sure everyone is following the building rules.
204: Special powers of chief executive for monitoring performance of functions under this Act
Building Act 2004
Special officers can check buildings and land to make sure they are safe and follow the rules.
222: Inspections by territorial authority
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
The government must follow the rules in this law
2A: Principal Act to bind the Crown
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Property goes to new trustees without extra paperwork
3: Property to vest in trustees or their successors
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Societies can't become boards anymore, but existing boards can become societies
8: Applications for incorporation may no longer be made by societies
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How a group can agree to create a trust board
9: Manner in which society may authorise application
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to apply to make your group or trust official
10: Applications for incorporation
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to make your trust board official
11: Registration of boards
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to show a board is officially registered
12: Evidence of incorporation
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
A trust board becomes a special organisation that can own things and take legal action
13: Effect of incorporation
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Property automatically becomes owned by the new board when trustees join together
14: Vesting of property
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Rules for choosing a name for your charitable trust board
15: Name of board
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Board can ask to change its name with Registrar's approval
16: Change of name at application of board
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
You can ask a judge to look at the Registrar's decision again if you don't agree with it
17: Right to appeal to court
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to officially send something to a board
18: Service on a board
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How boards can make different types of contracts
19: Form of contracts
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Trustees' actions are usually considered okay, even if there were mistakes in how they were chosen
20: Presumption of validity of acts of trustees, etc
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How a board can use, sell, swap, or buy property
21: Powers in respect of property
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
You can still create charitable groups using other laws, but not if you've already done it under this law.
22: Power to incorporate for charitable purposes under other Acts
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to tell the Registrar about changes to your trust or rules
23: New trusts, and alterations of rules, trusts, or registered office
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to close down a society that's set up as a board
24: Voluntary liquidation of society as a board
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
A court can decide to close down a board if it's fair
25: Liquidation of a board by court
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How the Registrar can take a board off the list of registered boards
26: Removal by Registrar
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How leftover stuff is shared when a trust board closes
27: Distribution of surplus assets
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
The Registrar keeps a list of important information and has an official stamp
28: Register of boards and seal of Registrar
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How you can see and use official documents from the Registrar
29: Inspection, production, and evidence of documents kept by Registrar
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Most documents and actions are free under this part of the law
30: Exemption from fees
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
You can use charity money for a different good cause if the first plan doesn't work out
32: Property may be disposed of for other charitable purposes
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Changing how a charitable trust is run to make it work better
33: Extension of powers or alteration of mode of administration of trust
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Trustees can make a plan to change how they manage a charity's money and property
34: Trustees may prepare a scheme
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Attorney-General reviews new trust plans before court approval
35: Scheme to be laid before Attorney-General
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Tell everyone about changes to a charitable trust before the court decides
36: Scheme to be advertised
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
What counts as a charitable purpose in this part of the law
38: Meaning of term charitable purpose in this Part
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
This part explains which charitable donations are covered by the law
39: Funds to which this Part applies
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Rules for using charity money for different purposes when the original plan doesn't work
40: Property may be disposed of for other charitable purposes
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Changing how charity money is managed when it's difficult
41: Extension of powers or alteration of mode of administration of trust
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
People who donate to or hold money for charities can use this part of the law
42: Contributor or money holder may proceed under this Part
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Rules for calling a meeting of people who donated to a charity
43: Convening meeting of contributors
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Telling people about new ideas for using charity money before a meeting
44: Subsequent advertisement or notice of other newly proposed purpose
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How charity meetings work and how decisions are made
45: Proceedings at meetings
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Contributors choose a group to create a plan for the trust's new purpose
46: Scheme committee
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Giving important papers about your group's plan to the Attorney-General
47: Scheme, etc, to be laid before the Attorney-General
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
The Attorney-General can change, approve, or report on plans for money raised for good causes
48: Powers and duties of Attorney-General
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
You can ask for your donation back before the meeting about changing the charity's purpose
49: Contributor may get back money before date fixed for first meeting of contributors
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Attorney-General or court can change how meetings about charity money are held or skip them if not worth the trouble
50: Attorney-General or court may dispense with meeting of contributors
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How different groups can run charitable projects
51: Administration of schemes
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to pay for making and sharing a plan for charitable trusts
52: Expenses of scheme
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Court decides who can speak about and approve charity plans
53: Jurisdiction of court in respect of schemes
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Court's decision on charity plans must be announced publicly
54: Approval of scheme or refusal by court to approve scheme to be gazetted
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Court or Attorney-General can overlook small mistakes when setting up a charitable trust
55: Power to waive non-compliance with procedural requirements
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Rules for approving special plans for charitable purposes
56: Restrictions on approval of schemes
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
You don't have to pay for certain documents or applications
57: No fee payable to Registrar
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
The government can check how charities work and use their money
58: Inquiries into condition and management of charities
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Property holders must give property to new owners when a plan is approved
59: Holder of property to transfer it in accordance with scheme
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to ask the court for help when charity money isn't used properly
60: Proceedings to enforce or vary charitable trust or to require a new scheme
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Changing an organisation's rules doesn't change how they must use money or property given for charity
61: Alteration of rules of society or corporation not to affect existing trusts
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Trusts with both good and not-so-good purposes can still be valid
61B: Inclusion of non-charitable and invalid purposes not to invalidate a trust
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
The Government can create special rules to help the Act work better
62: Regulations
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
This law explains what happens to old rules and decisions when the new Charitable Trusts Act starts
63: Repeals, amendment, and savings
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to record new people in charge of a trust's property
Schedule 1: Memorandum of appointment of new trustees
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
How to ask to be officially recognised as a group that looks after money for good causes
Schedule 2: Forms of application for incorporation as a board
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
List of old laws that don't apply anymore
Schedule 3: Enactments repealed
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Rules for when the law changes
2B: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
The Registrar can change a board's name to follow the rules
15A: Registrar may change name
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Name changes don't affect what a trust board can do or its responsibilities
16A: Effect of change of name
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Trust boards must confirm they're registered when asked, except for charitable groups
22A: Acknowledgement of registration
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Putting a charity board back on the official list if it was taken off by accident
26AA: Restoration to register
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
The Registrar can update or fix information in the register
28A: Amendments to register
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Rules for old and new charitable trust boards
Schedule 1AA: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Special COVID-19 rules for pausing charity debts are no longer in effect
25A: COVID-19 business debt hibernation may apply
Charitable Trusts Act 1957
Societies can choose to stay as they are or become a new type of group
30A: Society may reregister under Incorporated Societies Act 2022
Consumer Guarantees Act 1993
Makers must provide repairs and parts for a reasonable time
12: Guarantee as to repairs and spare parts
Consumer Guarantees Act 1993
Gas and electricity must be safe, reliable, and good enough for everyday use
7A: Guarantee of acceptable quality in supply of gas and electricity
Biosecurity Act 1993
Rules for people who run ports to be fair and honest with users
37C: Port operators
Biosecurity Act 1993
A 'lien' is a special debt on your land that must be paid first, before other debts.
129: Liens
Biosecurity Act 1993
Money collected from a levy must be kept in a special bank account for the Director-General.
140A: Trust accounts for levy money payable to Director-General
Biosecurity Act 1993
Checking people pay the right amount of levy to the government
141B: Compliance audits for Director-General's levy
Biosecurity Act 1993
Sorting out disagreements about paying a levy
142: Resolution of disputes
Biosecurity Act 1993
Checking people are paying the right amount of levy
100P: Compliance audits for levy
Biosecurity Act 1993
Agencies must report how they use the levy money they receive each year.
100R: Management agency to account for levy
Biosecurity Act 1993
Who can represent an industry group under the Biosecurity Act 1993
100ZA: Industry organisation
Biosecurity Act 1993
Auditors must follow the rules and do their job properly when checking organisations.
105D: Auditors' general duties
Biosecurity Act 1993
The person in charge can combine rules and documents into one, making it easier to understand.
166A: Certain secondary legislation or published instruments may be consolidated
Student Loan Scheme Act 2011
Rules for when an organisation can be called a charity
27B: When entity qualifies to be listed as charity
Student Loan Scheme Act 2011
You can ask for a review if your group isn't listed as a charity or is taken off the list
176A: Challenge to decision relating to listing of entity as charity
Companies Act 1993
Companies can issue loans that may never be repaid
95A: Perpetual debentures
Companies Act 1993
Reissuing or replacing company debentures that have been paid off
95B: Power to reissue redeemed debentures in certain cases
Companies Act 1993
Court can order you to follow through on agreements to lend money to companies
95C: Specific performance of contracts to subscribe for debentures
Companies Act 1993
Settling share price disputes through independent arbitration
112A: Price for shares referred to arbitration if shareholder objects to price
Companies Act 1993
You might get extra money if your share payment is late
112B: Interest payable on outstanding payments
Companies Act 1993
When a company buys your shares and how it affects your shareholder rights
112C: Timing of transfer of shares
Companies Act 1993
This section explains the official name of the law and when it took effect
1: Short Title and commencement
Companies Act 1993
Explains the meaning of important terms used in the Companies Act 1993
2: Interpretation
Companies Act 1993
How companies must publicly announce important information
3: Public notice
Companies Act 1993
How to check if a company can pay its bills and is worth more than it owes
4: Meaning of solvency test
Companies Act 1993
What it means for companies to own or control other companies
5: Meaning of holding company and subsidiary
Companies Act 1993
This section about what counts as a subsidiary company has been removed from the law
6: Extended meaning of subsidiary
Companies Act 1993
Rules for determining if a company is a subsidiary of another
8: Certain matters to be disregarded
Companies Act 1993
The Companies Act applies to everyone, including the government
9: Act binds the Crown
Companies Act 1993
What you need to set up a company in New Zealand
10: Essential requirements
Companies Act 1993
Official document proving a company's legal existence
14: Certificate of incorporation
Companies Act 1993
When a company is formed, it becomes a separate person in the eyes of the law.
Companies Act 1993
Companies are separate legal entities from their owners
15: Separate legal personality
Companies Act 1993
Companies have broad powers but must follow legal and constitutional limits
16: Capacity and powers
Companies Act 1993
Company actions remain valid even if they exceed company powers
17: Validity of actions
Companies Act 1993
How companies deal with outside people and what you can trust
18: Dealings between company and other persons
Companies Act 1993
Public availability of company documents doesn't mean you're expected to know their contents
19: No constructive notice
Companies Act 1993
You must reserve a company name before registering or changing it
20: Name to be reserved
Companies Act 1993
Companies with limited shareholder liability must end their name with "Limited" or "Tāpui (Limited)"
21: Name of company if liability of shareholders limited
Companies Act 1993
How to apply to reserve a company name
22: Application for reservation of name
Companies Act 1993
Registrar can require a company to change its name or assign a new one
24: Direction to change name
Companies Act 1993
Rules for how companies must use their name in documents and communications
25: Use of company name
Companies Act 1993
Companies can decide whether to have a constitution or not
26: No requirement for company to have constitution
Companies Act 1993
How a company's constitution interacts with the Companies Act
27: Effect of Act on company having constitution
Companies Act 1993
Companies without a constitution are governed by the Companies Act
28: Effect of Act on company not having constitution
Companies Act 1993
Rules for what counts as a company's constitution
29: Form of constitution
Companies Act 1993
What you can include in your company's constitution
30: Contents of constitution
Companies Act 1993
How a company's constitution relates to the Companies Act 1993
31: Effect of constitution
Companies Act 1993
Creating, changing, or removing a company's constitution
32: Adoption, alteration, and revocation of constitution
Companies Act 1993
Submitting a single document with all company rules and changes
33: New form of constitution
Companies Act 1993
Court can change a company's constitution when normal methods are impractical
34: Court may alter constitution
Companies Act 1993
Shares are parts of a company. They have rules and rights. You can buy and sell them.
Companies Act 1993
What you can do and get as a shareholder
36: Rights and powers attaching to shares
Companies Act 1993
Companies can issue different types of shares with varying rights and features
37: Types of shares
Companies Act 1993
Shares can be transferred unless the company's rules say otherwise
39: Transferability of shares
Companies Act 1993
Rules for companies when agreeing to issue new shares
40: Contracts for issue of shares
Companies Act 1993
Shares must be given out when a company is formed or joins with another
41: Issue of shares on registration and amalgamation
Companies Act 1993
Company boards can issue shares as they see fit, following legal and company rules
42: Issue of other shares
Companies Act 1993
Telling the Registrar when new shares are issued
43: Notice of share issue
Companies Act 1993
Company boards can issue new shares if shareholders approve changes to company rules
44: Shareholder approval for issue of shares
Companies Act 1993
Existing shareholders get first chance to buy new shares
45: Pre-emptive rights
Companies Act 1993
How you can pay for shares when a company issues them
46: Consideration for issue of shares
Companies Act 1993
How you might need to pay for shares when a company is first set up
46A: Consideration for issue of shares on registration
Companies Act 1993
Board decides share price and terms for new or existing shares
47: Consideration to be decided by board
Companies Act 1993
When you can issue shares without following the usual rules
48: Exceptions to section 47
Companies Act 1993
Rules for issuing share options and convertible products
49: Consideration in relation to issue of options and convertible financial products
Companies Act 1993
Shares that create new debts need your written consent before they're issued
50: Consent to issue of shares
Companies Act 1993
Shares become official when the owner's name is added to the share register
51: Time of issue of shares
Companies Act 1993
Company directors can approve sharing profits with shareholders if the company can still pay its bills
52: Board may authorise distributions
Companies Act 1993
Getting company shares instead of cash dividends
54: Shares in lieu of dividends
Companies Act 1993
Rules for offering special deals to company owners
55: Shareholder discounts
Companies Act 1993
Getting back money or assets given to shareholders when the company couldn't afford it
56: Recovery of distributions
Companies Act 1993
Rules for reducing what shareholders owe for their shares
57: Reduction of shareholder liability a distribution
Companies Act 1993
A company can purchase its own shares if it follows specific legal requirements
58: Company may acquire its own shares
Companies Act 1993
Company's rules for buying its own shares
59: Acquisition of company's own shares
Companies Act 1993
Company board can offer to buy shares from shareholders
60: Board may make offer to acquire shares
Companies Act 1993
Rules for companies buying back their own shares
61: Special offers to acquire shares
Companies Act 1993
Document explaining the company's plan to buy its own shares
62: Disclosure document
Companies Act 1993
Companies must notify shareholders before buying their own shares on the stock exchange
63: Stock exchange acquisitions subject to prior notice to shareholders
Companies Act 1993
Company must provide information about its plan to buy its own shares
64: Disclosure document
Companies Act 1993
Companies can buy shares on the stock exchange without telling shareholders first
65: Stock exchange acquisitions not subject to prior notice to shareholders
Companies Act 1993
What happens to shares when a company buys them back
66: Cancellation of shares repurchased
Companies Act 1993
When a company can be made to buy back its shares
67: Enforceability of contract to repurchase shares
Companies Act 1993
Shares, debentures, and treasury stock are types of investments in a company.
Companies Act 1993
Companies can keep their own shares if their rules allow it
67A: Company may hold its own shares
Companies Act 1993
Company-owned shares have no voting rights or financial benefits
67B: Rights and obligations of shares company holds in itself suspended
Companies Act 1993
Rules for a company selling its own shares
67C: Reissue of shares company holds in itself
Companies Act 1993
Defining when a company's shares can be bought back
68: Meaning of redeemable
Companies Act 1993
Company can buy back its own shares under specific conditions
69: Redemption at option of company
Companies Act 1993
A company must be able to pay its debts after buying back its own shares
70: Company must satisfy solvency test
Companies Act 1993
Buying back shares from shareholders under specific conditions
71: Special redemption of shares
Companies Act 1993
Document explaining share redemption process and rules
72: Disclosure document
Companies Act 1993
What happens when a company buys back its own shares
73: Cancellation of shares redeemed
Companies Act 1993
How shareholders can ask the company to buy back their redeemable shares
74: Redemption at option of shareholder
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
This Act creates a new group to watch over money matters in New Zealand
3: Purpose of this Act
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Understanding key terms in the Financial Markets Authority Act
4: Interpretation
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The government must follow this law just like everyone else
5: Act binds the Crown
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
New government team created to watch over money matters
6: Financial Markets Authority established
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA is a special part of the New Zealand government with its own rules
7: FMA is Crown entity
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) helps make sure money markets are fair and safe for everyone
9: FMA's functions
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA board can have special helpers chosen by the Minister
11: Associate members
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Associate members can do FMA board tasks, but only for specific topics
12: Associate member treated as member of board
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Rules about different parts of the Financial Markets Authority
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA can split up its work into different teams
14: FMA may act by divisions
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Rules for setting up and running groups within the Financial Markets Authority
15: Membership, chairperson, meetings, and resolutions of division
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA can use smaller groups to make decisions and do tasks
16: Powers of division
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
How many FMA members must attend meetings for decisions to be made
17: Quorum for meetings of FMA
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
What happens if someone can't make it to an important FMA meeting?
18: Completion of proceedings where member unable to attend meeting
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA members can make decisions without meeting if they agree in writing
19: Assent to resolution without meeting
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Minister can ask FMA to check and write about money markets
20: Minister may request that FMA inquire and report
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA and its people can't be sued for doing their job unless they were really careless
22: Protection from liability for FMA and members and employees
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA can share information safely while doing its job
23: FMA's warnings, reports, guidelines, or comments protected by qualified privilege
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
How the FMA proves its decisions in court
24: Evidence of orders and decisions of FMA
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
How the FMA can gather information and enforce rules to keep financial markets fair
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The authority can ask for and collect important information and proof.
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can ask you for information, papers, or to talk to them
25: FMA may require person to supply information, produce documents, or give evidence
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA can collect different types of information to help make decisions
26: Powers of FMA to receive evidence
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Ways you can share information with the FMA
27: How evidence may be given
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA might pay you if you're a witness, but not too much
28: Witnesses' expenses
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can allow searches of places and things to find proof of broken financial rules
29: Power to enter and search place, vehicle, or other thing
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA can share information and documents with other agencies that enforce laws or regulate things, including those in other countries.
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can share information with other agencies to help everyone do their job better
30: Sharing of information and documents with law enforcement or regulatory agencies and overseas regulators
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The ability to help when regulators from other countries ask for assistance
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can help overseas regulators by gathering and sharing information
31: Power of FMA to act on requests of overseas regulators
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA carefully considers requests from overseas before deciding to help
32: FMA's consideration of requests
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Rules about collecting information and making sure people follow the law
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Rules for sharing FMA information with other groups
33: Conditions that may be imposed on providing information, documents, or evidence to other agencies or regulators
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can take legal action for someone else to protect the public
34: FMA may exercise person’s right of action
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Rules for when the FMA can start or take over a legal case for someone else
35: Requirements for FMA exercising person’s right of action
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The court can let the FMA take over some legal cases if it's best for everyone
36: High Court may grant leave in certain circumstances
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Steps the FMA must follow to take action for someone else
37: Procedural requirements for leave to exercise person’s right of action
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Court helps FMA in legal cases about money matters
38: Powers of High Court for proceedings exercising person’s right of action
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can act for a group of people with similar concerns in court
39: Representative actions
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can keep certain information secret during their work
44: Power to make confidentiality orders
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
You can share secret information if the FMA says it's okay
45: Publication or disclosure with FMA's consent
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can accept written promises from people or companies about their work
46: FMA may accept undertakings
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Keeping promises made to the FMA and what happens if you don't
47: Enforcement of undertakings
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Asking the High Court for its opinion on a legal matter
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can ask the High Court for help with tricky legal questions
48: FMA may state case for opinion of High Court
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can make people share its money warnings
49: FMA may require its warning to be disclosed
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can let others collect information for them
52: Power to authorise person to obtain information or documents
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Rules for people allowed to get special information for the FMA
53: Requirements for persons authorised to obtain information or documents
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
People working for the FMA won't get in trouble for doing their job
55: Protection from liability for persons exercising powers
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Powers to gather information and protect certain rights
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
What happens when legal actions are going on while powers are being used
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
What happens when you challenge the FMA's powers in court
57: Effect of proceedings
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Other ways people can break the rules when the FMA is gathering information or making sure the rules are followed
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
You can get in trouble if you don't cooperate with the Financial Markets Authority
61: Criminal liability for obstructing exercise of powers
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Rules for sending official notices from the Financial Markets Authority
62: Notices
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
How to send and receive important legal messages
63: Service of notices
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA can use its powers from this law and other laws too
64: Powers not limited
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA people can't share work secrets in court, with some exceptions
65: Limitation on disclosure of information obtained in FMA's operations
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
People and companies in finance pay money to help run the FMA
68: Levy of financial markets participants and other persons registered or incorporated under Acts referred to in Schedule 1
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
FMA must talk to people before asking for money
69: FMA must consult about request for appropriation
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Words and their meanings in this part of the law
70: Interpretation
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Getting rid of a group that watched over money matters
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The old Securities Commission has been replaced by a new Financial Markets Authority
71: Securities Commission disestablished
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
What happens when the Securities Commission is replaced by the Financial Markets Authority
72: Consequences of disestablishment
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Replacing 'Commission' with 'FMA' in old documents
73: References to Securities Commission
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
This law explains what happens when the Securities Commission closes and the Financial Markets Authority takes over
75: Effect of Act
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA keeps using old records without needing to change names
76: Registers
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
What happens when the Government Actuary's office closes
78: Consequences of disestablishment
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
What to do when you see 'Government Actuary' mentioned in old documents
79: References to Government Actuary
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Rules about Ministry workers getting new jobs at the Financial Markets Authority
81: Ministry of Economic Development employees
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
This law changes other laws to keep everything up to date
82: Amendments to other enactments
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Changes to laws and rules when the Securities Commission became the Financial Markets Authority
84: Amendments consequential on replacement of Commission by FMA
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Changes to laws and rules: replacing 'Government Actuary' with 'FMA'
85: Amendments consequential on replacement of Government Actuary by FMA
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Laws that help keep money and financial services safe in New Zealand
Schedule 1: Financial markets legislation
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Changes to other laws and rules because of the new money watchdog law
Schedule 3: Amendments to other enactments
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Changes to laws: replacing old names with Financial Markets Authority
Schedule 4: Amendments to replace references to Securities Commission or Government Actuary
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA aims to make financial markets fair and easy for everyone
8: FMA's main objective
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA must talk to you about legal actions they take about you, unless it makes things too difficult for them
40: FMA must consult person A
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Legal time limits for FMA start when they ask permission to sue
42: Special limitation provision
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Rules for handling old and new financial market issues
43: Transitional provisions
Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
The FMA must tell people when they make, change, or cancel rules
50: FMA must give notice of orders
Crimes Act 1961
It's against the law to hurt or mess with computers in ways that can harm people or break things.
250: Damaging or interfering with computer system
Crimes Act 1961
It's against the law to create, sell, or have computer programs that help people break into computers or do illegal things.
251: Making, selling, or distributing or possessing software for committing crime
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown entities must follow rules from several laws, including their own special law and general laws like the Companies Act and Public Service Act.
4: Application of Acts to Crown entities
Crown Entities Act 2004
What the main parts of the Crown Entities Act 2004 are about
12: Outline of main Crown entity provisions
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown Entities Act 2004
How the government sets up a new organisation with its own rules and powers.
Crown Entities Act 2004
Setting up a special group to do a specific job using a separate law
13: Establishment of statutory entity
Crown Entities Act 2004
What jobs statutory entities are allowed to do
16: Core things statutory entities can do
Crown Entities Act 2004
Do your job only: use your powers for the right tasks
18: Acts must be for purpose of functions
Crown Entities Act 2004
Breaking a law or doing something wrong makes an action invalid, but a court can still help.
19: Acts in breach of statute are invalid
Crown Entities Act 2004
Some things you do with a government organisation are okay, even if they're not perfectly legal.
20: Some natural person acts protected
Crown Entities Act 2004
Things done by a statutory entity are valid even if they're not the best choice for it
22: Acts that are not in best interests of statutory entity
Crown Entities Act 2004
Statutory entities must keep their word when dealing with you
23: Dealings between statutory entities and other persons
Crown Entities Act 2004
Members of a group must follow rules and answer to a Minister for their actions.
26: Accountability of members to responsible Minister
Crown Entities Act 2004
The Minister's job is to oversee and guide a statutory entity to ensure it follows the rules and does its job properly.
27: Responsible Minister's role
Crown Entities Act 2004
Who can be on a board, how they get chosen, and what rules they must follow
Crown Entities Act 2004
How Ministers choose the right people for important jobs
29: Criteria for appointments or recommendations by responsible Minister
Crown Entities Act 2004
Who can be a member of a government group
30: Qualifications of members
Crown Entities Act 2004
When the Government can remove elected members from certain groups
38: Removal of elected members of Crown agents and autonomous Crown entities
Crown Entities Act 2004
No other paid job allowed without Minister's approval
46: Member of corporation sole not to hold concurrent office
Crown Entities Act 2004
How much members of government groups get paid for their work
47: Remuneration of members
Crown Entities Act 2004
A government organisation must manage its money and belongings carefully.
51: Entity must operate in financially responsible manner
Crown Entities Act 2004
Follow the rules: do what the law and your organisation's law say
53: Duty to comply with this Act and entity's Act
Crown Entities Act 2004
Be careful and work hard in your role, like a reasonable person would.
56: Duty to act with reasonable care, diligence, and skill
Crown Entities Act 2004
Keep work secrets secret unless the law says you can share them
57: Duty not to disclose information
Crown Entities Act 2004
Board members are responsible for working together and following the rules, or they might lose their job.
58: Accountability for collective board duties
Crown Entities Act 2004
Being responsible for your individual duties as a member of a government group
59: Accountability for individual duties
Crown Entities Act 2004
Rules to stop people making decisions that help themselves, not others
Crown Entities Act 2004
Telling others about personal interests that could affect your decisions
62: When interests must be disclosed
Crown Entities Act 2004
Tell others if you have a personal interest in something that affects your group
63: Obligation to disclose interest
Crown Entities Act 2004
Who you must tell about your interests when you're part of a government group
64: Who disclosure of interests must be made to
Crown Entities Act 2004
What happens if you don't tell people about your interests when you're supposed to
67: Consequences of failing to disclose interest
Crown Entities Act 2004
When you have a conflict of interest, you can still make decisions if you get written permission.
68: Permission to act despite being interested in matter
Crown Entities Act 2004
Proving a deal is fair if there's a conflict of interest
71: Onus of proving fair value
Crown Entities Act 2004
The board can give some of its jobs to others, like members, employees, or approved people.
73: Ability to delegate
Crown Entities Act 2004
What happens when someone is given a job or power to act on behalf of a group or organisation
74: Powers of delegate
Crown Entities Act 2004
Delegating tasks doesn't stop you from being in charge or responsible for what your delegates do.
75: Effect of delegation on entity or board
Crown Entities Act 2004
When someone takes back a job they gave you to do
76: Revocations of delegations
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown Entities Act 2004
The government can buy shares in its own companies, but only if two or more Ministers agree, including the Minister of Finance.
79: Formation and acquisition of shares in Crown entity companies
Crown Entities Act 2004
Rules for Ministers about buying and selling shares in government companies
80: Restrictions relating to shares in Crown entity companies
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown entity companies must have a constitution that says they are a Crown entity.
81: Crown entity company must have constitution stating it is Crown entity
Crown Entities Act 2004
The government must show the company's rules to Parliament when it becomes a Crown company.
82: Constitution must be presented to House of Representatives
Crown Entities Act 2004
Minister chooses someone to make decisions for them in a government-owned company
84: Appointment of representative of shareholding Minister
Crown Entities Act 2004
How Crown entity companies follow the Companies Act and other laws
85: Interface with Companies Act 1993 and other Acts
Crown Entities Act 2004
The board's job is to manage the company and make decisions according to the rules.
86: Board's role
Crown Entities Act 2004
Members of Crown entity companies are responsible to the Government for their actions.
87: Accountability of members to shareholding Ministers
Crown Entities Act 2004
Ministers who help manage government-owned companies
88: Shareholding Ministers' role
Crown Entities Act 2004
How the Minister chooses people to be on a Crown company team
89: Criteria for appointments by shareholding Minister
Crown Entities Act 2004
Tell the Ministers about your interests before joining a Crown entity company
90: Members must disclose interests before appointment
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown entity companies must do things that match their goals and plans.
92: Duty to act consistently with objectives, functions, statement of intent, and statement of performance expectations
Crown Entities Act 2004
Board members are responsible for working together and following the rules, or they might lose their job.
94: Accountability for collective board duties
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown entity members must follow the rules in this Act and their own Act.
95: Duty to comply with this Act and entity's Act
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown Entities Act 2004
How the government sets up and owns smaller groups that help it work.
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown entities must follow rules when buying or creating a new subsidiary company.
96: Acquisition of subsidiaries
Crown Entities Act 2004
Rules for Crown entities to control their subsidiaries
97: Subsidiaries: rules applying to all Crown entities
Crown Entities Act 2004
Rules for statutory entities to manage their subsidiaries correctly
98: Subsidiaries: rules applying only to statutory entities
Crown Entities Act 2004
Rules for companies with more than one parent company
99: Application to multi-parent subsidiaries
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown entities must follow rules when buying shares or interests in companies, trusts, or partnerships.
100: Acquisition of shares or interests in companies, trusts, and partnerships, etc
Crown Entities Act 2004
A corporation sole cannot own parts of other companies without approval.
101: Corporation sole may not acquire interests in bodies corporate
Crown Entities Act 2004
How Crown entities work with company and information laws
102: Interface with Companies Act 1993 and other Acts
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown Entities Act 2004
The government gives instructions to certain organisations it is in charge of.
Crown Entities Act 2004
The government can ask some organisations to follow its plans when making decisions.
104: Power to direct autonomous Crown entities to have regard to government policy
Crown Entities Act 2004
Ministers can't tell independent Crown entities what to do, unless another law says they can.
105: No power to direct independent Crown entities or Crown entity companies on government policy unless provided in another Act
Crown Entities Act 2004
Government can give you instructions if you work for a Crown Entity
106: Directions to members and office holders of entities
Crown Entities Act 2004
Government ministers can give instructions to government departments and companies to help them work together better
107: Directions to support whole of government approach
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown entities must follow the instructions they are given.
110: Obligation to give effect to direction
Crown Entities Act 2004
The government can't control some decisions made by Crown entities to keep them independent.
113: Safeguarding independence of Crown entities
Crown Entities Act 2004
The government gives instructions to organisations that work for it.
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown entities must follow the rules and directions given to them by the government.
114: Crown entities must comply with directions given under statutory power of direction
Crown Entities Act 2004
Rules for Crown entity workers from the Public Service Act 2020
119: Application of clauses 12 to 14 of Schedule 8 of the Public Service Act 2020
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown Entities Act 2004
Protection from debts if you work for a government organisation
120: Protections from liabilities of statutory entity
Crown Entities Act 2004
People working for the government can't be sued for some mistakes they make while doing their job.
121: Immunity from civil liability
Crown Entities Act 2004
Protection for people in statutory entities from costs of mistakes or wrongdoing
122: Indemnities in relation to excluded act or omission
Crown Entities Act 2004
Protection for people in organisations if they make a mistake at work
123: Insurance for liability of member, office holder, or employee
Crown Entities Act 2004
Paying back money if you get too much indemnity or insurance
125: Breach of indemnity and insurance limits
Crown Entities Act 2004
How a government organisation can make a formal agreement or contract
127: Method of contracting
Crown Entities Act 2004
A statutory entity's official stamp, called a common seal, proves something is genuine and trustworthy.
128: Seal
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown Entities Act 2004
Checking how well a government-owned business is working
132: Review of Crown entity's operations and performance
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown Entities Act 2004
What special words mean in this part of the law
136: Interpretation for this Part
Crown Entities Act 2004
Crown Entities Act 2004
When this law applies to organisations, starting from 2006, it has a special condition.
137: Application of this subpart
Crown Entities Act 2004
A Crown entity can change its plans if they are wrong or have changed, and must follow a set process to do so.
148: Amendments to final statement of intent by Crown entity
Litter Act 1979
Company bosses can be guilty too if they know the company is breaking the law
18: Liability of officers of body corporate
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
What's included in a local alcohol policy
77: Contents of policies
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
This part of the law is about making rules for selling and supplying alcohol to help keep our community safe.
3: Purpose
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
The goal of this law is to help you buy, supply, and drink alcohol safely and responsibly.
4: Object
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Alcohol laws help keep you safe. They say who can sell alcohol and when. There are rules for places that sell alcohol, like shops and restaurants. These rules help stop people from getting hurt or sick from drinking too much.
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Some people are exempt from rules about selling and giving away alcohol.
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Some alcohol sales by makers and sellers are exempt from the law
8: Certain sales by makers, importers, distributors, and wholesalers exempted
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Selling alcohol to drink on the premises
14: On-licences generally
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Rules for restaurants that let customers bring their own alcohol
15: On-licences: BYO restaurants
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Selling alcohol to take away from an off-licence, and rules for free or paid samples
17: Off-licences: sale and supply on licensed premises
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Alcohol can be delivered straight to off-licences from suppliers with a prior arrangement
19: Off-licences: direct delivery of alcohol, by arrangement with holder, by distributor, importer, manufacturer, or wholesaler
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Auctioneers with a special licence can sell alcohol at auctions.
20: Off-licences: auctioneers
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Selling alcohol to club members on club premises
21: Club licences
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Licences for special events that let you sell alcohol in certain ways.
22: Special licences
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
You don't have to sell alcohol to everyone, or let them drink on your premises.
24: No obligation to serve
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Only eligible people can get an alcohol licence
27: Licences not to be issued to persons not empowered to hold them
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Who can sell alcohol: people, companies, and groups over 20 years old
28: Who can hold on-licences, off-licences, and special licences
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Rules for restaurants that let customers bring their own alcohol
37: On-licences for BYO restaurants
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Selling alcohol at events: special rules for caterers
38: On-licences for caterers
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Special alcohol licence for people who run auctions
39: Off-licences for auctioneers
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Rules for getting a special licence to sell alcohol to drink elsewhere
42: Restrictions on issue of special licences for consumption off-premises
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Maximum hours to sell or serve alcohol in New Zealand
43: Default national maximum trading hours
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
When you can sell alcohol depends on your local area's rules and your licence.
45: Permitted trading hours for premises with relevant local alcohol policy
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Buying alcohol online is allowed at any time, but there are still some delivery rules.
49: Remote sales exempted from trading hours restrictions
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Licenced places must sell low-alcohol drinks for people to drink there.
52: Low-alcohol drinks to be available
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Rules for selling alcohol to take away with a special licence
55: Requirements relating to special licences for consumption off-premises
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Alcohol sellers must display signs showing their opening hours at every main entrance.
56: Display of signs: on-licences, off-licences
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Showing your alcohol licence where people can see it
57: Display of licence: all licences
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Rules you must follow when selling or supplying alcohol
63: Requirements and restrictions imposed as conditions
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Tell the licensing authority if your alcohol-licensed company's owners or name change
69: Notification of licensing authority by company of changes in company shareholding or name
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Tell the licensing authority if you buy or sell shares in an alcohol-licensed company
70: Notification of licensing authority by beneficial owner of shares of changes in shareholding
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
What happens when you give up your alcohol licence or manager's certificate
73: Surrender of licence or manager's certificate
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Telling people about your alcohol licence application
101: Notification requirements
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Rules can be added to alcohol licences if the local area has specific alcohol rules.
109: Conditions may be imposed if required by local alcohol policy
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Special rules for places that sell alcohol, like bars and clubs, to keep people safe
110: Particular conditions: on-licences and club licences
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Some alcohol licences have a one-way door rule that says when people can enter or leave a premises.
111: Imposition of one-way door restrictions by condition
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Rules for selling alcohol from a shop or supermarket, like who you can sell to and when
116: Particular discretionary conditions, and other compulsory conditions: off-licences
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Extra rules licence holders must follow, decided by the people approving the licence
117: Other discretionary conditions
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Some rules might only apply to certain areas or times on licensed premises.
118: Different conditions may apply to different parts of premises
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Your old alcohol licence ends when a new one is issued for the same place.
121: Licence expires when new licence issued for same premises
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
How to renew your alcohol licence
127: Application for renewal of licence
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
People who check if alcohol sellers are following the rules
197: Licensing inspectors
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
What you need to qualify for a manager's certificate to sell alcohol
222: Criteria for manager's certificates
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
How to renew your alcohol manager's certificate before it expires
224: Application for renewal of manager's certificates
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Who gets to decide if you can renew your alcohol manager's certificate?
226: Who decides application for renewal of manager's certificates
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Appointing a temporary manager when your regular manager is away
229: Temporary manager
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Telling authorities about new alcohol managers
231: Notice of appointment, etc, of manager, temporary manager, or acting manager
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Selling alcohol without a licence is against the law
233: Sales by unlicensed persons
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
No selling alcohol in unlicensed places
234: Allowing unlicensed premises to be used for sale of alcohol
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Don't encourage people to drink too much alcohol
237: Irresponsible promotion of alcohol
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
No one under 18 can work where alcohol is sold, unless they're doing certain jobs.
242: Employment of minors
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Selling alcohol without permission is against the law
247: Unauthorised sale or supply
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Don't let people get too drunk at your alcohol venue or you could be fined.
249: Allowing people to become intoxicated
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Selling spirits in big containers: you can't sell spirits in containers over 500ml to drink on the premises
254: Sales of spirit in vessel exceeding 500 ml
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
What happens if a bar or restaurant manager isn't doing their job properly and might lose their licence
285: Suspension or cancellation of manager's certificates
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Licence to sell alcohol can be suspended if you don't follow health and safety rules.
286: Suspension of licence for non-compliance with public health or fire precaution requirements
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
When You Break Alcohol Sales Rules, You Might Lose Your Licence
288: Holdings giving rise to cancellation of licence and manager's certificate
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Losing your alcohol manager's certificate if you get in trouble three times in three years
290: Cancellation of manager's certificate after 3 holdings within 3 years
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Licensing trusts must pay taxes like a business, including income tax and rates.
306: Licensing trust liable to taxes
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Making a deal with people you owe money to, like a company would
336: Power to compromise with creditors
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Trustees must prepare and publicly share accurate financial reports each year
383: Financial statements
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Rules made by the Governor-General about alcohol licences and sales
397: Regulations
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Licences to sell alcohol that you already had are still valid under the new law.
409: Existing licences continue in force
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Understanding old company rules about alcohol sales and licences
413: Interpretation of documents constituting certain existing bodies corporate
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Trusts that can sell alcohol in New Zealand
Schedule 1: Existing licensing and community trusts
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
How to tell if a shop is a grocery store
33: Determining whether premises are grocery store
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
No off-licences for petrol stations, garages, dairies, or some shops.
36: No off-licences for petrol stations, certain garages, dairies, convenience stores, conveyances, or shops within shops
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
How licensing committees hold meetings and make decisions
190: Meetings of licensing committees
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Supermarkets and grocery shops can only sell certain types of alcohol with 15% or less ethanol.
58: Restriction on kinds of alcohol sold in supermarkets and grocery shops, and premises directly accessible from supermarket or grocery shop
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Your licence renewal application is cancelled if the licence expires.
124: Application for renewal lapses if licence expires
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
You need to choose a manager if you have a licence to sell alcohol.
212: Appointment of managers: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Using computers to keep records instead of writing them down
6: Use of electronic records
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Selling alcohol from a different place while your shop is being fixed
74: Temporary licence during repairs, etc
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Rules for selling alcohol in one area of a shop or venue
114: Effect of single-area conditions
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Keep a record of who manages your alcohol-selling business, including their details, for at least 2 years.
232: Licensees to keep record of managers, acting managers, and temporary managers
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
What happens to alcohol licence applications made 6-12 months after the new law started
407: Disposal of applications made between 6 and 12 months after day of assent
Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
Winery cellar doors must offer snack food when selling wine samples to customers.
62A: Snack food to be available when samples sold from winery cellar doors
Criminal Procedure Act 2011
Corporations must have a authorised person to represent them in court
12: Representatives of corporations
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Protecting New Zealand's Important Assets from Overseas Ownership
Overseas Investment Act 2005
When the Overseas Investment Act 2005 starts, and how the Governor-General chooses the start date
2: Commencement
Overseas Investment Act 2005
This law helps protect important New Zealand assets from overseas owners by setting rules and conditions.
3: Purpose
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What the Overseas Investment Act 2005 is about and how it works in New Zealand
4: Overview
Overseas Investment Act 2005
This Act includes fishing investment rules from the Fisheries Act 1996.
5: Act incorporates sections 56 to 58B of Fisheries Act 1996
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What words in the Overseas Investment Act 2005 mean
6: Interpretation
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Who is considered a person from overseas under New Zealand law?
7: Who are overseas persons
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What it means to be an associate and have associated land in the Overseas Investment Act
8: Meaning of associate and associated land
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules for overseas investments: • Get consent before investing • Follow conditions for consent • Tell the truth in applications Investments need to benefit New Zealand.
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Before investing in special New Zealand things from overseas, you must ask for permission first.
10: Consent required for overseas investments in sensitive New Zealand assets
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Get approval before making an overseas investment
11: Consent must be obtained before overseas investment given effect
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What are overseas investments in sensitive New Zealand assets
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What is an overseas investment in New Zealand's sensitive land?
12: What are overseas investments in sensitive land
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What is an overseas investment in a big New Zealand business?
13: What are overseas investments in significant business assets
Overseas Investment Act 2005
How the Minister decides whether to approve an overseas investment
14: Approach to criteria for consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Who's in charge when people from overseas invest in New Zealand?
15: Who are relevant overseas persons, and individuals with control, for overseas investments
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules for overseas investors buying special New Zealand land
16: Criteria for consent for overseas investments in sensitive land
Overseas Investment Act 2005
How the government decides if overseas investments in special New Zealand land are beneficial
17: Factors for assessing benefit of overseas investments in sensitive land
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules for overseas investors buying big New Zealand businesses
18: Criteria for consent for overseas investments in significant business assets
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Checking if overseas investors are good characters
19: Applying good character and Immigration Act 2009 criteria
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Some overseas investors don't have to follow all the rules when buying New Zealand farm land
20: Exemptions from farm land offer criterion
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Asking for permission to invest from overseas: follow the rules
21: Application for consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Who needs to ask for permission to make an overseas investment?
22: Who must apply for consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What you need to do when applying for consent to invest from overseas
23: Requirements for application for consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Who gets to say yes or no to your overseas investment application?
24: Who decides application
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The Minister says yes or no to overseas investment applications
25: Granting or refusal of consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The Minister can cancel an overseas investment approval if it was obtained unfairly
26: Minister may revoke consent in case of fraud
Overseas Investment Act 2005
You can change your overseas investment consent if you and the Minister agree.
27: Consent may be varied by agreement
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules that overseas investors must follow when buying something in New Zealand
28: Conditions of consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The law can stop a deal if it wasn't approved, even after it's happened.
29: Transaction may be cancelled
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The person in charge of overseas investments is called the regulator, chosen by the Minister.
30: Regulator
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The regulator's job is to help manage overseas investment in New Zealand and make sure everyone follows the rules.
31: What regulator does
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The Minister can pass some of their jobs to someone else, but not all decisions can be given away.
32: Delegation by relevant Minister or Ministers
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules for when someone is given a job to do under the Overseas Investment Act 2005
33: Rules that apply to delegation under this Act or regulations
Overseas Investment Act 2005
A Ministerial directive letter is a special letter from the Minister that tells the regulator what to do about overseas investment in New Zealand.
34: Ministerial directive letter
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The regulator can create rules to help people follow the Overseas Investment Act 2005.
36: Regulator may issue guidelines
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The regulator can ask you for information to check you're following the rules.
38: Regulator may require person to provide information for monitoring purposes
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The regulator can ask for information to help track overseas investments in New Zealand.
39: Regulator may require any person to provide information for statistical or monitoring purposes
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The regulator can ask you to sign a special paper to prove you're following the rules.
40: Regulator may require person to provide statutory declaration as to compliance
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The regulator can ask for information or documents to check people are following the rules.
41: Regulator may require information and documents to be provided
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Breaking the rules about investing from overseas can be against the law.
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Breaking the law by making an overseas investment without permission
42: Offence of giving effect to overseas investment without consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Breaking the Overseas Investment Act 2005 on purpose or by not caring about the rules is against the law
43: Offence of defeating, evading, or circumventing operation of Act
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Breaking the law: stopping others from doing their job can get you in trouble
44: Offence of resisting, obstructing, or deceiving
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Breaking the Overseas Investment Act 2005 rules can lead to a big fine if you don't follow them without a good reason.
45: Offence of failing to comply with notice, requirement, or condition
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Telling lies or giving wrong information to the regulator is against the law
46: Offence of false or misleading statement or omission
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Court can make you sell property if you break the rules
47: Court may order disposal of property
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Court can order you to pay a fine if you break the Overseas Investment Act 2005 rules
48: Court may order person in breach or involved in breach to pay civil pecuniary penalty
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Court can make you register a mortgage to follow the rules or pay back money
49: Court may order mortgage to be registered over land
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The court can make you pay extra money if you break the rules or don't pay on time.
50: Court may order interest to be paid
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Courts can make you follow the rules of your overseas investment approval
51: Court may order compliance with condition of consent, exemption, exemption certificate, direction order, or interim direction order
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Paying a penalty for filing documents late with the government
52: Administrative penalties for late filing
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Paying a penalty when you apply late for permission to invest overseas
53: Administrative penalty for retrospective consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
You must have a New Zealand address to get important documents if you're involved in overseas investments.
54: Address for service
Overseas Investment Act 2005
The court can still make a decision even if you don't show up, if you got proper notice.
55: Non-appearance not ground for court to refuse order under Act if person served in accordance with section 54A
Overseas Investment Act 2005
A search warrant lets officials look at a place or thing to find evidence of a crime.
56: Search warrant
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What a search warrant should look like and what it should say
57: Form and content of search warrant
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What police can do with a special search warrant paper
58: Powers conferred by search warrant
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules to help the Overseas Investment Act 2005 work
61: Regulations
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Land near water owned by the government isn't considered subdivided
62: Foreshore, seabed, riverbed, or lakebed acquired by the Crown under consent process is not subdivision
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Overseas Investment Act 2005
You don't get paid if you lose your job because of the Overseas Investment Act.
65: No compensation for loss of office
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Changes to other laws because of the Overseas Investment Act 2005
75: Consequential amendments
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Stopping old investment laws from being used anymore
76: Repeal and revocations
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What happens to things that were already underway when the new overseas investment rules started
77: Transitional provision for acts done or begun under previous overseas investment regime
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules from the old law still apply to some overseas investments made before 2005
78: Transitional provision for consents, exemptions, and conditions under 1973 Act and Regulations
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules for old fishing permissions still apply
79: Transitional provision for permissions, etc, under Fisheries Act 1996
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Land that has special rules because of its type, size, or location, like near the beach or on certain islands
Schedule 1: Sensitive land
Overseas Investment Act 2005
When you don't need permission to invest from overseas
11A: Exemptions from requirement for consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Is the overseas investment good for New Zealand?
16A: Benefit to New Zealand test
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Apply early for permission to make overseas investments in sensitive land
23A: Applications for standing consent in advance of transaction
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules you must follow when someone says yes to your overseas investment
25A: Conditions of consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
You can ask for a new approval if you already have one with conditions.
27A: Consent holder may apply for new consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
When You Don't Need Permission to Invest in New Zealand Land
Schedule 3: Exemptions from requirement for consent
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Permissions to make multiple investments in New Zealand without needing to apply each time
Schedule 4: Standing consents
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Defending yourself if you break the Overseas Investment Act 2005 rules
48A: Defences for person involved in contravention, offence, or failure
Overseas Investment Act 2005
How the regulator sends you important documents or notices
54A: Notices or other documents given, provided, or served by regulator
Overseas Investment Act 2005
How to prove you sent important documents correctly
55A: Proof that documents given, provided, or served
Overseas Investment Act 2005
When following the law is too hard or expensive, you can get exemptions to make things easier
61B: Purpose of exemptions
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules for when the law changes: what happens to things you started before or after the change
Schedule 1AA: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Special rules to help with changes in the Overseas Investment Act 2005
8B: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules for buying New Zealand homes or land that need special permission to benefit New Zealand
16B: Conditions for consents relating to sensitive land that is residential land: benefit to New Zealand test
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules that apply to every overseas investment in New Zealand
25B: Automatic conditions: every overseas investment
Overseas Investment Act 2005
What happens if a court decides the Overseas Investment Act was used unfairly
41C: Effect of final decision that exercise of powers under sections 38 to 41 unlawful
Overseas Investment Act 2005
Rules for keeping shared information private and safe
41E: Conditions relating to publication or disclosure of information or documents
Building Societies Act 1965
How documents are registered and what it means
121B: Registration of documents
Building Societies Act 1965
Registrar can ask for changes to documents before adding them to building society records
121C: Registrar may require document to be registrable or otherwise comply before registration
Building Societies Act 1965
How the government saves important building society papers
121D: When documents are registered
Building Societies Act 1965
You can check information about building societies
121F: Inspection of register
Building Societies Act 1965
Getting official copies of building society records
121G: Obtaining certified copy or extract from register
Building Societies Act 1965
Explaining important words used in the Building Societies Act
2: Interpretation
Building Societies Act 1965
The rule about building societies having an official seal was removed
5: Official seal
Building Societies Act 1965
The Registrar no longer needs to write a yearly report about building societies
7: Annual report by Registrar
Building Societies Act 1965
How to start a building society in New Zealand
13: Mode of establishing society
Building Societies Act 1965
Rules for starting a building society must be checked and approved
14: Registration of rules of society
Building Societies Act 1965
Rules tell you what a building society must do and how it works
17: Contents of rules
Building Societies Act 1965
Building societies must use their official registered name or face penalties
22: Society to use registered name
Building Societies Act 1965
How to change the name of your building society
23: Change of name
Building Societies Act 1965
Building societies can't start working until they get a special permission paper
28: Business not to be commenced before incorporation
Building Societies Act 1965
Building societies can join together to become one society
32: Union of societies
Building Societies Act 1965
Extra rules for societies joining together or passing on their duties
34: Supplementary provisions as to union and transfer of engagements
Building Societies Act 1965
How to tell the government when your building society moves its main office
73: Change of registered office
Building Societies Act 1965
Building societies need at least two people to run them
83: Directors
Building Societies Act 1965
Directors must tell others about their business interests
86: Disclosure of interest by directors
Building Societies Act 1965
Workers at building societies can't take extra money for helping with loans or insurance
87: Officers not to accept commissions
Building Societies Act 1965
Telling officials when important people join or leave a building society
88: Notice of changes in holding of certain offices
Building Societies Act 1965
Directors must write a report about the society's performance for the yearly meeting
95: Directors' report
Building Societies Act 1965
Breaking rules about money reports and meetings can get building society directors in trouble
97A: Offences relating to laying financial statements before annual general meeting, half-yearly financial statements, directors' report, and distribution of financial statements
Building Societies Act 1965
Rules can't protect building society leaders from getting in trouble for their mistakes
107: Officers and auditors not to be exempted from liability
Building Societies Act 1965
Building society members can vote to change into a company
113A: Building society may approve scheme for conversion of society into company under Companies Act 1993
Building Societies Act 1965
Building society needs approval to become a company
113C: Special resolution approving scheme for conversion to be registered by Registrar of Building Societies
Building Societies Act 1965
What happens to a building society's stuff when it becomes a company
113E: Consequential provisions on conversion of society
Building Societies Act 1965
New company from building society can't give out special or prize-winning shares
113H: Prohibition on issue of terminating or bonus balloting shares in company to which society converts
Building Societies Act 1965
Rules for protecting certain shareholders when a building society becomes a company
113I: Preservation of rights of terminating shareholders
Building Societies Act 1965
No more prize draws three years after a building society becomes a company
113P: Prohibition of bonus ballots after expiry of 3 years from conversion date
Building Societies Act 1965
Rules for changing building societies into companies
113Q: Regulations for purposes of this Part
Building Societies Act 1965
How a building society can be closed down by someone in charge
118: Dissolution by appointment of liquidator
Building Societies Act 1965
Telling the official record keeper when a building society is closing down
120: Notice of dissolution or liquidation
Freedom Camping Act 2011
Car rental agreements can include rules about paying fines for breaking camping laws
29: Rental service agreement may provide for payment of infringement fee
Freedom Camping Act 2011
Rental companies must follow steps before charging you for breaking camping rules
30: Charging hirer for infringement fee
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
This law's name tells us it's about rules for people who help with immigration in New Zealand
1: Title
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
When the rules for immigration advisers start working
2: Commencement
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
This law makes rules to keep immigration advice safe and good
3: Purpose and scheme of Act
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
You can't give immigration advice unless you have a special permission or don't need one
6: Prohibition on providing immigration advice unless licensed or exempt
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Rules for people giving immigration advice from outside New Zealand
8: Offshore immigration advice
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Rules for becoming a licensed immigration adviser
10: Who may be licensed as immigration adviser
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Governor-General can make or remove rules about who needs a licence to help with immigration
12: Exemption, or removal of exemption, by Order in Council
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
People who can't become licensed immigration advisers
15: Persons prohibited from licensing
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
People who might not be allowed to become immigration advisers
16: Persons subject to restriction on being licensed
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
How to apply to become a licensed immigration adviser
18: Application for licence
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
You can't give your immigration adviser licence to someone else
25: Licence may not be transferred
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
When and why an immigration adviser can lose their licence
27: Cancellation of licence
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
How the Registrar cancels an adviser's licence
28: Process for cancellation
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
When does a cancelled or suspended licence stop working?
30: Effective date of cancellation or suspension
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Your immigration adviser licence will end if you don't renew it on time
33: Expiry of licence
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
The Registrar makes rules for immigration advisers to follow
36: Registrar to develop competency standards
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Registrar makes rules for immigration advisers to follow
37: Registrar to develop code of conduct
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
What happens when someone complains about an immigration adviser
45: Procedure on receipt of complaint by Registrar
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
What happens if an immigration adviser does something wrong
51: Disciplinary sanctions
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
The adviser's licence can be put on hold if someone complains about them
53: Suspension of licence pending outcome of complaint
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
You can challenge a decision to cancel your adviser licence
55: Appeal to Tribunal against determination by Registrar to cancel licence
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Why inspections happen for immigration advisers
56: Purposes of inspection
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
You can only help with immigration if you have permission or don't need it
63: Offence to provide immigration advice unless licensed or exempt
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
You can get in trouble for giving wrong information when applying for a licence
66: Offence to provide false or misleading information
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Breaking the law by not telling about important changes if you help with immigration
70: Offence to fail to notify change in circumstances
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
If you're accused of giving immigration advice without a licence, the law assumes you need one
74: Presumption as to non-exemption
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
What information is kept about immigration advisers
78: Contents of register
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
What happens when you get temporary permission to give immigration advice
83: Effect of interim order
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Setting fees for immigration adviser licences
89: Licensing fees
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Rules about fees for licensed immigration advisers
90: Immigration adviser's levy
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Sharing information about immigration advisers with other countries
92: Disclosure of personal information overseas
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Rules for immigration advisers can be made by the Governor-General
94: Regulations
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 is trying to achieve
3: Main purposes
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What extra things this law is trying to achieve for you and financial markets
4: Additional purposes
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
A law to keep money and investments fair and safe for you in New Zealand.
5: Overview
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What words and phrases mean in the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
6: Interpretation
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What a financial product is, like loans, company shares, and investments.
7: Meaning of financial product
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What different kinds of financial products mean
8: Definitions relating to kinds of financial products
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What 'financial benefit' and 'managed investment scheme' mean in simple terms
9: Definitions of financial benefit and of managed investment scheme
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What 'issued' and 'issuer' mean when you buy a financial product
11: Definitions of issued and issuer
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What it means to be connected to someone or a company in business and law
12: Meaning of associated person and related body corporate
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Understanding what statements and information mean in the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
13: Miscellaneous interpretation provisions relating to statements and information
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What examples mean in the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
14: Status of examples
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
The government must follow this law too
15: Act binds the Crown
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
This law's rules are important and must be followed, even if other agreements say otherwise.
16: Application of Act
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Be honest when buying or selling financial products to avoid misleading others.
19: Misleading or deceptive conduct generally
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Don't trick people when selling financial products - be honest so they can make good choices.
20: Misleading conduct in relation to financial products
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Don't mislead people when selling financial services
21: Misleading conduct in relation to financial services
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Some rule-breaking actions don't break other rules in the Financial Markets Conduct Act.
28: Certain conduct does not contravene various provisions
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Some finance rules don't apply to newspapers, magazines, TV, or the internet unless they're trying to sell you something.
29: Limited application of provisions in relation to newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, etc
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Protection for people who accidentally publish illegal ads as part of their job
30: Defence for publisher
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Telling people about disclosures doesn't break the law for licensed market operators.
31: Licensed market operator does not contravene by notifying disclosures
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
When other laws already apply, some rules don't count
32: Other exceptions
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Rules for being honest with people about money apply in New Zealand and sometimes overseas too
33: Territorial scope of sections 19 to 23
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Rules for selling financial products: • Be honest about what you're selling • Give buyers important information • Follow special rules for some products
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Telling investors about financial products you are selling
39: Issue offers that need disclosure
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Telling investors about financial product sales when the law says you must
40: Sale offers that need disclosure
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What are regulated offers and products in finance?
41: Meaning of regulated offer and of regulated product
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Some investments have extra rules to follow
42: Regulated offers that need to meet additional governance requirements
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Buying a choice to buy a financial product, like a special ticket to buy something later
43: Options over financial products
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Rules for financial products that can change into other types
44: Treatment of offers of convertible financial products
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Rules for when someone offers to renew or change a financial product you have
45: Treatment of offers of renewals and variations
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
When financial products are offered in New Zealand, this part of the law applies, no matter where they come from.
47: Territorial scope of Part
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
People must prepare and lodge a document that explains a financial product clearly.
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Before selling financial products, you must create and submit a special document called a Product Disclosure Statement.
48: PDS must be prepared and lodged
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What a Product Disclosure Statement is meant to do: help you decide on a financial product.
49: Purpose of PDS
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Telling investors important information about financial products
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Get a PDS document before buying financial products if the seller needs to tell you more about them
50: PDS must be given if offer requires disclosure
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
When you don't need to follow the usual rules for giving information about financial products
51: Certain situations in which section 50 does not need to be complied with
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
You're considered to have got the product info if the application form came with it
52: PDS treated as having been given if application form used was included in, or accompanied by, PDS
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Breaking the rules about giving information when selling financial products can get you in trouble
53: Offence to knowingly or recklessly contravene section 50
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Getting your money back if a seller breaks the rules when selling you financial products
54: Right to withdraw
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Information about financial products must be clear and easy to understand when it's shared with you.
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Telling people important information when selling financial products
57: Disclosure of material information and content of PDS and register entry
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What 'material information' means when buying financial products
59: Meaning of material information in this Part
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Getting permission from experts before using their statements in important documents
60: Consent of experts and persons who make endorsements
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Make your Product Disclosure Statement easy to understand
61: PDS must be worded and presented in clear, concise, and effective manner
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
A Product Disclosure Statement must follow the rules about what it looks like and what's in it.
62: PDS must comply with prescribed requirements relating to form and presentation
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Rules about lodging important papers for financial products
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Telling the Registrar important extra information when lodging documents
63: Supply of prescribed information
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Registrar must tell the Financial Markets Authority when a company's investment information is lodged
64: Registrar must notify FMA of lodgement of PDS
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Companies must wait before accepting your application to buy a financial product
65: Waiting period after lodgement before processing applications for financial products
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
The law boss can give you more time to do something, and they will tell you in writing.
66: FMA may extend period
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
You can still use another document for a financial product if one document has a waiting period.
67: Waiting period restriction does not prevent offeror from acting under another PDS
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
The FMA can lift some rules if it's finished checking or doesn't need to check something.
68: FMA may remove restrictions if its consideration complete or consideration or further consideration unnecessary
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
No waiting time for some financial product information
69: Waiting period does not usually apply to continuous issue PDSs
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
No guarantee that financial documents are correct or follow the law
70: No guarantee or representation as to compliance
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
When you can update or fix the information in a PDS document
71: When supplementary document or replacement PDS may be lodged
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Extra information that adds to the main document about a financial product
72: Supplementary document
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Updating the main information document with a new version
73: Replacement PDS
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Registrar must tell the FMA when you add or replace important documents
74: Registrar must notify FMA of lodgement of supplementary document or replacement PDS
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Telling people you've lodged a document on your website
75: Publication of lodgement
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
How to fix or update incorrect information on the financial products register
76: When register entry may be amended
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Companies must meet certain conditions before they can sell or transfer financial products.
77: Minimum number or amount condition must be fulfilled before issue or transfer
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
If a seller promises to list a product on a market but doesn't, the sale is not valid.
78: Issue or transfer void if quotation condition not fulfilled
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What happens if something is wrong with the information given about a financial product?
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Following rules for fair treatment of financial product applications when things don't go as planned
79: Application of section 80
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What happens if something goes wrong with your financial product application?
80: Choices open to offeror
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
You can't sell financial products if you don't give people correct information about them.
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Tell the truth when selling financial products
82: False or misleading statements, omissions, and new matters requiring disclosure
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
People who must tell a company about mistakes in its investment information
83: Persons who must inform offeror about disclosure deficiencies
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
When a Product Disclosure Statement expires or stops being valid
84: Expiry
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
What happens to your application when a financial product offer ends
85: How offeror must deal with applications on expiry
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
People's money for financial products must be kept safe in a trust.
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Your money is safe when you buy financial products because sellers must look after it until you get what you paid for.
87: Money for financial products must be held in trust
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Selling financial products from a company that is not real.
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
No selling products from a non-existent company if it would be regulated if it existed
88: Offering financial products of entity that does not exist
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Rules for advertising financial products in a fair and honest way
89: Advertising for regulated offers
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Sharing important documents with people, like Product Disclosure Statements, in a way that's allowed by law
90: Distribution of PDS or registered documents
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Advertising a financial product before paperwork is complete: what you can and can't say
91: Advertising before PDS lodged
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Advertising rules after a financial product's information is lodged
92: Advertising after PDS lodged
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
You must keep a list of financial product offers up to date.
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Tell the Registrar about changes to your products or scheme within a set time
95: Duty to notify changes to Registrar
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Telling investors and others important information about financial products
96: Information to be made available to investors, FMA, Registrar, or other prescribed persons
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Companies must share important information with the public at the right time
97: Information to be made publicly available
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
When information about financial products is wrong or missing.
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Telling lies or hiding important information when sharing updates about investments is not allowed
99: Defective ongoing disclosure
Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Land Transport Act 1998
People who run transport businesses must have special permission
30J: Transport service operators must be licensed
Land Transport Act 1998
How to ask for permission to run a transport service
30K: Application for transport service licence
Land Transport Act 1998
Company bosses can get in trouble if their company breaks the law
79K: Liability of directors of bodies corporate
Land Transport Act 1998
Officers can check trains and tracks to keep dangerous goods safe
130: Power to inspect railway lines
Land Transport Act 1998
A list of people who have permission to run transport services
199A: Register of transport service licences
Land Transport Act 1998
You must keep and show records about transport services, or you could be fined
79HA: Failure to keep or produce records
Animal Welfare Act 1999
Apply for a certificate to export animals from New Zealand
42: Application for animal welfare export certificate
Animal Welfare Act 1999
Rules for taking care of animals when exporting them from New Zealand
45: Conditions
Animal Welfare Act 1999
How an independent review is done by a special reviewer to check an organisation
108: Conduct of independent review
Animal Welfare Act 1999
Rules for taking animals out of New Zealand
183C: Regulations relating to exporting animals
Auctioneers Act 2013
This law explains how auctioneers are registered and what rules they need to follow
3: Purpose of Act
Auctioneers Act 2013
What important words mean in this law about auctions
4: Interpretation
Auctioneers Act 2013
You need to be registered to work as an auctioneer
5: Registration of person carrying on business as auctioneer
Auctioneers Act 2013
Who is not allowed to be an auctioneer
6: Disqualification from registration
Auctioneers Act 2013
Registered auctioneers can only hire other qualified auctioneers
7: Restriction on who registered auctioneers may engage as auctioneer
Auctioneers Act 2013
How to apply to become an auctioneer
8: Application for registration to carry on business as auctioneer
Auctioneers Act 2013
What you need to tell us when you want to become an auctioneer
9: Information and material to be included in application
Auctioneers Act 2013
How the Registrar checks and approves your application to become an auctioneer
10: Acceptance of application
Auctioneers Act 2013
Explaining why an application to be an auctioneer was turned down
11: Refusal of application
Auctioneers Act 2013
Your auctioneer licence runs out after a year unless you renew it
12: Registration expires after 12 months
Auctioneers Act 2013
Auctioneers must confirm their details yearly to stay registered
13: Annual confirmation
Auctioneers Act 2013
How the Registrar can cancel an auctioneer's registration
14: Cancelling registrations
Auctioneers Act 2013
When an auctioneer is no longer allowed to sell things at auctions
15: When registered auctioneer ceases to be registered
Auctioneers Act 2013
Telling the Registrar when important things change for auctioneers
16: Obligation to notify Registrar of changes
Auctioneers Act 2013
Auctioneers must keep detailed records of sellers, items, and auction details
17: Auctioneer record
Auctioneers Act 2013
Keeping and sharing your auction record
18: Storage and inspection of auctioneer record
Auctioneers Act 2013
Person in charge of managing auctioneers' registration
19: Registrar of Auctioneers
Auctioneers Act 2013
The Registrar can give you a paper that proves if someone is an auctioneer
20: Registrar's certificate
Auctioneers Act 2013
A list of all registered auctioneers that anyone can look up online
21: Register of auctioneers
Auctioneers Act 2013
How to disagree with decisions about your auctioneer registration
22: Appeals
Auctioneers Act 2013
The court can temporarily stop an auctioneer's registration from being cancelled
23: Interim order by District Court
Auctioneers Act 2013
Rules to follow if you're an auctioneer to avoid getting in trouble
24: Offences
Auctioneers Act 2013
Rules for existing auctioneers when the new law starts
26: Application of Act to existing licence holders and others
Auctioneers Act 2013
Changes to the law mean you now need to be registered to run auctions
27: Amendments removing exemption from requirement to be registered
Auctioneers Act 2013
Making changes to other laws because of the new auctioneers law
28: Consequential repeal and amendments
Auctioneers Act 2013
Changes to rules about people who sell things for others at special sales
Schedule : Amendments relating to auctioneers
Employment Relations Act 2000
A promise made by an employer to fix problems or pay money owed, which can be enforced by law.
223B: Enforceable undertakings
Employment Relations Act 2000
Workers must vote secretly before they can go on strike
82A: Requirement for union to hold secret ballot before strike
Employment Relations Act 2000
What special words mean in the Employment Relations Act 2000
5: Interpretation
Employment Relations Act 2000
This explains who counts as a worker and who doesn't in the eyes of the law.
6: Meaning of employee
Employment Relations Act 2000
Sometimes, a union helper can't go into a small workplace if the boss has a special paper and no workers belong to a union.
23: When access to workplaces may be denied on religious grounds
Employment Relations Act 2000
This explains who can speak up or be involved in legal matters about unions.
29: Persons who have standing in proceedings relating to unions
Employment Relations Act 2000
This explains which groups can start talks for a work agreement between workers and bosses.
40: Who may initiate bargaining
Employment Relations Act 2000
When unions and employers can start talking about work agreements
41: When bargaining may be initiated
Employment Relations Act 2000
Bosses must tell workers when talks about work rules are starting
43: Employees' attention to be drawn to initiation of bargaining
Employment Relations Act 2000
Unions need special voting before they can ask many bosses to make one big work agreement together
45: One or more unions proposing to initiate bargaining with 2 or more employers for single collective agreement
Employment Relations Act 2000
This explains when group work agreements start and end.
52: When collective agreement comes into force and expires
Employment Relations Act 2000
This explains who must follow the rules in a workplace agreement between unions and employers.
56: Application of collective agreement
Employment Relations Act 2000
This law explains how new employers and unions can join an existing work agreement if certain rules are followed.
56A: Application of collective agreement to subsequent parties
Employment Relations Act 2000
Workers can only follow one group agreement for their job, even if they belong to multiple unions.
57: Employee bound by only 1 collective agreement in respect of same work
Employment Relations Act 2000
Your boss must keep a copy of your job agreement so you can see what you agreed to.
64: Employer must retain copy of individual employment agreement or individual terms and conditions of employment
Employment Relations Act 2000
This part of the law aims to protect certain workers when their job changes hands to a new boss.
69A: Object of this subpart
Employment Relations Act 2000
This section explains the meaning of important words and ideas used in the rules about keeping your job when your work changes.
69B: Interpretation
Employment Relations Act 2000
This explains how work can be moved between different people or companies.
69C: Meaning of contracting in, contracting out, and subsequent contracting
Employment Relations Act 2000
This explains who counts as your new boss when your job changes hands
69D: Meaning of new employer
Employment Relations Act 2000
This law explains how jobs can change when companies switch who does the work, like cleaning or cooking, and how workers can keep their jobs.
69E: Examples of contracting in, contracting out, and subsequent contracting
Employment Relations Act 2000
This part explains when the rules apply to workers whose jobs might change because of company changes.
69F: Application of this subpart
Employment Relations Act 2000
Telling employees about their right to choose a new boss when their job changes
69G: Notice of right to make election
Employment Relations Act 2000
You can choose to work for the new boss if your job changes
69I: Employee may elect to transfer to new employer
Employment Relations Act 2000
Rules for employees moving to a new job when their work changes hands
69K: Terms and conditions of employment of transferring employee under fixed term employment
Employment Relations Act 2000
This rule protects agreements that say you don't get extra money if you choose not to work for a new boss.
69L: Agreements excluding entitlements for technical redundancy not affected
Employment Relations Act 2000
When a worker changes jobs, their new boss has to follow the old work agreement, but only for that worker.
69M: New employer becomes party to collective agreement that binds employee electing to transfer
Employment Relations Act 2000
If you choose to work for a new company, you can ask for money if they want to let you go because of the change.
69N: Employee who transfers may bargain for redundancy entitlements with new employer
Employment Relations Act 2000
What big words in the Employment Relations Act mean
69OB: Interpretation
Employment Relations Act 2000
When information about employee transfer costs changes, the person who gave it must tell everyone the new details right away.
69OE: Updating disclosure of employee transfer costs information
Employment Relations Act 2000
This section explains important words and ideas about keeping your job when your work changes.
69OI: Interpretation
Employment Relations Act 2000
Rules say job contracts must include ways to protect workers if their work changes
69OJ: Collective agreements and individual employment agreements must contain employee protection provision
Employment Relations Act 2000
You can decide if you want to work for the new company or not when your job changes.
69OK: Affected employee may choose whether to transfer to new employer
Employment Relations Act 2000
This law explains how to figure out how many days off workers can get for learning about their job rights, based on how many people work at their company.
74: Calculation of maximum number of days of employment relations education leave
Employment Relations Act 2000
What a lockout is: when an employer stops work or employing people to get what they want from employees.
82: Meaning of lockout
Employment Relations Act 2000
Rules for locking out workers in important services like hospitals and police
91: Lockouts in essential services
Employment Relations Act 2000
You can change or cancel a code of practice the same way you made it in the first place.
100B: Amendment and revocation of code of practice
Employment Relations Act 2000
Your employer must keep a record of your pay and the hours you work.
130: Wages and time record
Employment Relations Act 2000
Creating a record of work hours and pay when the original is missing
232: Compilation of wages and time record
Employment Relations Act 2000
When company bosses might have to pay workers' wages and holiday money
234: Circumstances in which officers, directors, or agents of company liable for minimum wages and holiday pay
Employment Relations Act 2000
Your work agreement can't override the law's rules.
238: No contracting out
Employment Relations Act 2000
This law explains how workers and bosses can vote to change when their work agreement ends
246: Expiration of existing collective employment contracts
Employment Relations Act 2000
Bosses can choose not to join group talks with other bosses about worker agreements.
44A: Employer may opt out of bargaining for collective agreement, or for agreement to join collective agreement, involving 2 or more employers
Employment Relations Act 2000
A special type of boss who doesn't have to follow some rules about keeping workers when a business changes
69CA: Exempt employer
Employment Relations Act 2000
This law used to say who should get a promise about keeping their job, but it's not used anymore.
69CC: Persons warranty to be provided to
Employment Relations Act 2000
Who pays for the old benefits when an employee changes jobs during a company restructure
69LA: Liability for costs of service-related entitlements of transferring employee
Employment Relations Act 2000
An employer must tell workers and the government before stopping them from working
86B: Notice of lockout
Employment Relations Act 2000
This law explains how workers or bosses can cancel their plans to stop working or close the workplace.
95AA: Withdrawal of notice of strike or lockout
Employment Relations Act 2000
This rule explained who counts as a person connected to a business for employee protection during changes.
69DA: Associated person
Employment Relations Act 2000
A rule that punished employers who lied about being exempt from certain worker protection rules has been removed from the law.
69OAA: False warranty: exempt employer
Employment Relations Act 2000
Employers must keep detailed records to show they follow the rules about workers' basic rights.
4B: Employer’s general obligation to keep records relating to minimum entitlement provisions
Employment Relations Act 2000
Rules about when your boss can cancel your work shift and what they must pay you
67G: Cancellation of shifts
Employment Relations Act 2000
The judge can say someone broke important work rules if they did something really wrong.
142B: Court may make declarations of breach
Employment Relations Act 2000
What is a banning order: a court order to stop you employing people if you broke employment rules
142M: Banning orders
Employment Relations Act 2000
You can't buy insurance to avoid paying fines for breaking employment rules.
Employment Relations Act 2000
You can't use insurance to pay fines for breaking employment laws.
142V: Insurance against pecuniary penalties unlawful
Employment Relations Act 2000
This law explains who can get in trouble for helping someone break workplace rules.
142W: Involvement in breaches
Employment Relations Act 2000
You could get in trouble if you help someone break the rules at work.
142X: Person involved in breach liable to penalty
Employment Relations Act 2000
When can you use defences if you break employment rules?
142ZB: Proceedings in which defences apply
Employment Relations Act 2000
Fines for breaking rules: how much money people have to pay when they do something wrong
235E: Infringement fees
Employment Relations Act 2000
Employers must give information about pay deductions when asked, in writing, as soon as possible.
95F: Employer must respond to request for information about application or calculation of specified pay deduction
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Explanation of what 'supply' means in this act
21: Meaning of supply
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
What counts as a dangerous event at work that must be reported
24: Meaning of notifiable incident
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
PCBUs must ensure workplace safety for all legal visitors
37: Duty of PCBU who manages or controls workplace
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Responsibility to keep workplace equipment safe
38: Duty of PCBU who manages or controls fixtures, fittings, or plant at workplaces
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Designers must ensure work-related products are safe for all users
39: Duty of PCBU who designs plant, substances, or structures
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Manufacturers must ensure workplace products are safe for users
40: Duty of PCBU who manufactures plant, substances, or structures
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Importers must ensure safety of work-related machines, chemicals, and structures
41: Duty of PCBU who imports plant, substances, or structures
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Businesses must ensure safety of supplied workplace equipment and materials
42: Duty of PCBU who supplies plant, substances, or structures
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules for keeping people safe when working in mines
Schedule 3: Health and safety in mining sector
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Businesses and individuals cannot use insurance to pay health and safety fines
29: Insurance against fines unlawful
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
You must report serious incidents to the regulator immediately
56: Duty to notify notifiable event
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
When people act for you, you may be responsible for their actions
161: Conduct of directors, employees, or agents attributed
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules for getting workplaces approved when needed
204: Requirements for authorisation of workplaces
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules for using equipment or substances that need approval at work
205: Requirements for authorisation of plant or substance
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
This law's name is the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
1: Title
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
This law cleans up and organises other laws without changing what they mean
4: Revision Act
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules for switching to the new law and keeping important old rules
6: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Examples help explain the law but aren't the law itself
7: Status of examples
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
The government must follow most of this law, with a few exceptions
8: Act binds the Crown
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules about making and keeping promises: How we agree and what happens when things go wrong
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Explaining important words used in this part of the law
9: Interpretation
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Court can allow changes or cancellations to promises or duties
16: Court may authorise variation or discharge
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
This part of New Zealand law doesn't apply to agreements made using other countries' rules
19: This subpart does not apply to promises, contracts, or deeds governed by foreign law
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
What words mean and how we use them in this part of the law
23: Interpretation
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules for foreign contracts don't follow this part of NZ law
32: This subpart does not apply to contracts governed by foreign law
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
What it means to cancel a contract
33: Meaning of cancel
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules that try to stop courts from looking into things
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules for foreign contracts don't follow this part of NZ law
58: This subpart does not apply to contracts governed by foreign law
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Courts can count extra costs when deciding how much money was spent on a contract
65: Estimates of expenses
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Sometimes this part of the law doesn't count for certain agreements
69: This subpart does not apply in certain circumstances
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Words used in this law and what they mean
70: Interpretation
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules about agreements that limit competition in business
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Extra rules about when parts of the law for young people's contracts don't apply
91: Further provisions relating to application of sections 86 to 90
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Special rules for certain types of agreements and life protection plans
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contracts for jobs and life insurance work like adult contracts for young people
92: Contracts of service and life insurance contracts have effect as if minor were of full age
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Getting permission from a special court to make an agreement
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Who can ask the court to approve a contract for someone under 18
99: Persons who may apply
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Court can ask someone else to review your request to approve a minor's contract
100: Referral of application
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules for making deals about things held in trust
101: Contracts relating to property held on trust
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Solving disagreements or settling claims involving young people
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
When a court tells someone to look after money or things for a young person
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
More things to know about the rules we just talked about
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Sections 103 to 109 work with other important laws without changing them
110: Sections 103 to 109 do not limit or affect certain other provisions
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
The rules about contracts and who can make decisions about them
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules for buying and selling things: How to be fair when you trade with others
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Selling things based on a small example of the product
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Seller can keep control of goods until buyer meets certain conditions
147: Reservation of right of disposal
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
When someone hasn't paid for something they bought, the seller can keep it
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Preventing goods from being delivered while they're on their way
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
When goods are sent to a ship you've rented, it's not always clear who's responsible for them
180: Goods delivered to ship chartered by buyer
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
How an unpaid seller can stop goods being delivered
182: How right is exercised
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
When someone who bought something sells it again, or when the original seller sells it again
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Seller's rights when a buyer sells or uses unpaid goods
185: Effect of subsale or pledge by buyer
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
You can go to court if someone doesn't follow the rules in this law
200: Rights and duties enforceable by proceeding
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
This provision keeps some old rules and other laws working alongside the new rules for buying and selling things.
201: Savings
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
This part explains why we have rules for buying and selling things with other countries
202: Purpose
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
What words mean in this part about buying and selling things between countries
203: Interpretation
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
The Convention rules replace other laws when selling goods internationally
205: Convention to be code
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Understanding which countries agree to follow special rules when selling goods
206: Certificates about Contracting States
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules for using computers and the internet to do important things
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
This part explains how to use computers and the internet for legal stuff
207: Purpose
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
This part explains how electronic information works in legal matters
208: Overview
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Explaining important words used in this part of the law
209: Interpretation
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Extra guidelines for understanding this part of the law
210: Further provision relating to interpretation
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Electronic information is just as legally valid as paper information
211: Validity of information
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Rules about sending and receiving messages on computers or phones
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
When the rules about electronic messages are used
212: When default rules in sections 213 to 216 apply
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
When an electronic message is considered sent
213: Time of dispatch
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Where the law thinks you sent an electronic message from
215: Place of dispatch
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Where the law thinks you got an electronic message
216: Place of receipt
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
When an offer is accepted using email or text message
217: Time of communication of acceptance of offer
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
This law applies to most New Zealand rules, with some exceptions
218: When subpart applies
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
You can use electronic methods to follow legal rules if you do it the right way
219: When legal requirement can be met by electronic means
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Keeping information the same: what it means and when it's okay to make small changes
221: When integrity of information maintained
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017
Electronic information can replace written documents if you can find it easily later
222: Legal requirement that information be in writing
Trusts Act 2019
How the Trusts Act 2019 applies to trusts and works with other laws and trust rules.
5: Application, and relationship of Act with trust terms, common law and equity, and other enactments
Trusts Act 2019
What the Trusts Act 2019 is about and how it works in New Zealand.
6: Overview of this Act
Trusts Act 2019
How to understand the Trusts Act 2019 in a way that makes sense and achieves its goals.
7: Interpretation of Act
Trusts Act 2019
Things to consider when making investment decisions for a trust
59: Matters which trustee may consider in exercising power to invest
Trusts Act 2019
Trustees can choose someone to help with certain trust jobs, but not all decisions.
67: Trustee’s power to appoint others to exercise or perform certain powers or functions
Trusts Act 2019
Telling others when a trustee gives someone else their job to do
71: Notice of delegation of trustee’s powers and functions
Trusts Act 2019
Trustees are protected if they follow a special trust adviser's advice honestly and carefully
75: Reliance on special trust adviser’s advice
Trusts Act 2019
A trustee can adjust how trust property is shared among beneficiaries in certain investments.
78: Trustee’s power to adjust interests in trust property of portfolio investment entity
Trusts Act 2019
Trustees are protected if they warn others about distributing trust property and follow the rules.
79: Trustee’s liability limited where notice given to distribute trust property without regard to unknown claims
Trusts Act 2019
What happens when a trustee spends money or gets into debt for the trust
81: Trustee’s liability for expenses and liabilities incurred, and trustee’s right to indemnity
Trusts Act 2019
What order trust property is used to pay debts and expenses
85: Ranking of trust property
Trusts Act 2019
Protection for trustees who look after more than one trust
91: Protection relating to notice when person trustee of more than 1 trust
Trusts Act 2019
How to investigate and report on a trust in a fair and honest way
155: How investigator is to conduct and report on investigation
Trusts Act 2019
Trustees normally pay for the cost of investigating a trust
156: Costs of investigation borne by trustees
Trusts Act 2019
Changes to the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 law
165: Amendments to Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Trusts Act 2019
Rules for trusts with debt securities are a bit different
166: New section 110A and cross-heading inserted
Trusts Act 2019
Rules for managed investment schemes that are set up as trusts are a bit different
170: New section 155A and cross-heading inserted
Trusts Act 2019
Some trusts don't have to follow all the rules in the Trusts Act 2019
177: New section 77TA and cross-heading inserted
Trusts Act 2019
Changing the Financial Markets Authority Act 2011 law
179: Amendment to Financial Markets Authority Act 2011
Trusts Act 2019
Trusts that help with business deals and investments
Schedule 3: Specified commercial trusts
Trusts Act 2019
Changes to other laws because of the new Trusts Act 2019
Schedule 4: Amendments consequential on repeal of Trustee Act 1956
Trusts Act 2019
The law allows the Financial Markets Authority to let some trusts skip certain rules in the Trusts Act 2019.
173: Section 556 amended (FMA may grant exemptions)
Trusts Act 2019
Removing a trustee when it's best for the trust and they're no longer suitable
105: Optional removal of trustee
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Rules for non-NZ residents to register for GST if they sell goods or services in New Zealand
54B: Requirements for registration for certain non-resident suppliers
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Rules for unit title owners to claim tax deductions on shared expenses
21HC: Transitional rules relating to members of unit title bodies corporate
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
What input tax means: tax you pay on goods or services you buy for your business
3A: Meaning of input tax
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
When you don't have to charge tax on goods you sell or export
11: Zero-rating of goods
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
You must register for GST if your business earns over $60,000 in a year from selling goods or services.
51: Persons making supplies in course of taxable activity to be registered
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Some people are treated as registered for tax even if they are not actually registered.
51B: Persons treated as registered
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Companies working together can form a GST group for tax purposes
55: GST groups
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Rules for helpers like agents and auctioneers when buying or selling goods and services
60: Agents and auctioneers
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Keep track of your business with records like receipts and invoices for at least 7 years.
75: Keeping of records
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Changing the price if a business sale is not a going concern as thought
78E: Alteration of agreed price in relation to supply mistakenly believed to be of a going concern
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Keep a record of the things you buy or sell for your business
19F: Records of supplies
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Keeping records of secondhand goods you buy for your business
19H: Records of secondhand goods received by registered person
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Telling marketplace operators about your business: what you need to share
60H: Information requirements for underlying suppliers operating through electronic marketplaces
Goods and Services Tax Act 1985
Rules for online marketplaces with contracts made before 1 April 2024
85E: Certain contracts entered into before 1 April 2024
Residential Tenancies Act 1986
If a landlord leaves New Zealand for more than 21 days in a row, they need to choose someone to look after their property.
16A: Landlord must have agent if out of New Zealand for longer than 21 consecutive days
Residential Tenancies Act 1986
The rules for apartment buildings become part of your rental agreement and must be shared with you.
16B: Body corporate rules part of tenancy agreement
Residential Tenancies Act 1986
Landlords must keep good records of rent and bond payments for seven years.
30: Landlord to keep records
Residential Tenancies Act 1986
Rules for people who help others find places to live or stay
139: Regulations relating to accommodation brokers
Fair Trading Act 1986
Rules about being honest when sending things to China
51: Application of Act to goods that are, or may be, exported to China
Fair Trading Act 1986
The Minister can make, change, or cancel rules to help keep products safe
30A: Product safety policy statements
Fair Trading Act 1986
The government checks if safety rules for products are still good every five years
30B: Review of product safety policy statements
Fair Trading Act 1986
When companies choose to take back unsafe products, they must tell the government quickly
31A: Voluntary product recall
Fair Trading Act 1986
Rules for choosing people to check if things are safe to use
33A: Appointment of product safety officers
Fair Trading Act 1986
Product safety officers can check places for unsafe goods
33C: Powers of product safety officers
Fair Trading Act 1986
Stopping the sale of possibly dangerous goods to keep people safe
33D: Suspension of supply notices
Fair Trading Act 1986
Rules for stopping someone from running a business
46D: Terms of management banning orders
Fair Trading Act 1986
How courts handle requests to stop someone from managing a business
46F: Procedures relating to management banning order
Fair Trading Act 1986
Commission can give staff permission to check and enforce rules about product safety and information
47K: Commission may authorise employees for monitoring and enforcement purposes
Fair Trading Act 1986
Some actions allowed by financial market rules don't break fair trading rules
48S: Certain conduct under Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 does not contravene various provisions of this Act
Fair Trading Act 1986
Rules about financial products and when they don't have to follow all the usual rules
36S: Regulations
Fair Trading Act 1986
This part explains who the rules about auctions apply to
36Y: Application of subpart
Fair Trading Act 1986
Auctioneers must give you your money and a sale report within a set time
36ZF: Account and payment of proceeds
Fair Trading Act 1986
The Fair Trading Act doesn't cover company buying and selling rules
5B: Act does not apply to certain conduct regulated by Takeovers Code
Fair Trading Act 1986
You can't bring some things into New Zealand that aren't allowed
33: Importation of certain goods prohibited
Fair Trading Act 1986
Rules for keeping people safe when getting services
35: Safety standards in respect of services
Fair Trading Act 1986
Follow safety rules when providing services
36: Compliance with services safety standards
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How ACC groups jobs to set work accident insurance costs
170: Classification of industries or risks
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Work Account levies can go up if your workplace safety isn't good enough
175: Risk adjustment of Work Account levies
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Using information from other sources in Work Account rules
176: Incorporation by reference
Accident Compensation Act 2001
How to give documents or share information under this law
307: How documents given or information notified
Accident Compensation Act 2001
People who run or work for a company can get in trouble if the company breaks the law
312: Directors, employees, and officers
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Rules for creating a programme to encourage safer workplaces
174D: Establishment of workplace incentive programmes
Accident Compensation Act 2001
Changes to workplace safety rewards: big changes need full process, small changes are simpler
174E: Amendments to workplace incentive programme
Partnership Law Act 2019
This law updates how partnership rules are written without changing what they do
4: Revision Act
Partnership Law Act 2019
Explaining special words used in the partnership law
7: Interpretation
Partnership Law Act 2019
Some groups are not partnerships, like companies or clubs
9: Relationships that are not partnerships
Partnership Law Act 2019
What a business partnership is called and its name
10: Meaning of firm and firm name
Partnership Law Act 2019
How to tell if people are working as partners
11: Determining whether partnership exists
Partnership Law Act 2019
Property shared with others doesn't always mean you're business partners
12: Co-ownership of property
Partnership Law Act 2019
Splitting money or stuff you earn doesn't always mean you're partners
13: Sharing gross returns
Partnership Law Act 2019
Getting profits doesn't always mean you're a business partner
14: Effect of receiving share of profits
Partnership Law Act 2019
Getting money from a business doesn't always make you a partner
15: Where receiving profits or payments does not make person partner or liable as partner
Partnership Law Act 2019
What happens when someone who borrowed money or bought a business can't pay their debts
16: What happens if borrower or buyer is insolvent
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can speak and act for their business and each other
17: Partner is agent of firm and other partners
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can make decisions that affect the whole partnership, but there are limits
18: Power of partner to bind firm
Partnership Law Act 2019
What happens when a partner acts against agreed limits on their authority
19: Effect of notice that firm will not be bound by acts of partner
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners are responsible for actions done for the partnership by someone with permission
20: Partners bound by acts done or instruments executed on behalf of firm
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners shouldn't use the business's credit for personal stuff without permission
21: Partner using credit of firm for private purposes
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners share responsibility for business debts and obligations
22: Liability of partners for firm’s debts and obligations
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners may be responsible for mistakes made by other partners in their business
23: Liability of firm for partner’s wrongful acts or omissions
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners must handle other people's money and things carefully
24: Misapplication of money or property received for or in custody of firm
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can be held responsible together or alone for their business's wrongdoings
25: Liability for wrongful acts or omissions is joint and several
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners aren't usually responsible if one partner wrongly uses trust property in the business
26: Improper use of trust property for partnership purposes
Partnership Law Act 2019
You might have to pay if you pretend to be a business partner
27: Person liable if they represent themselves as partner
Partnership Law Act 2019
Business can keep its old name after a partner dies without involving their estate in new debts
28: Continued use of firm name when partner dies
Partnership Law Act 2019
What partners say about the business can affect everyone in the partnership
29: Admissions and representations of partners
Partnership Law Act 2019
Telling a partner something means you've told the whole business
30: Notice to acting partner is notice to firm
Partnership Law Act 2019
New partners don't have to pay for old problems
31: Liability of incoming partner
Partnership Law Act 2019
You might still owe money after leaving a partnership
32: Liability of partner who leaves firm
Partnership Law Act 2019
Protecting people who do business with a company when its members change
33: Rights of persons dealing with firm against apparent members of firm
Partnership Law Act 2019
A promise to back a business ends if the business owners change
34: Continuing guarantee revoked by change in firm
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can change their rights and duties if everyone agrees
35: Partners’ rights and duties may be varied by consent
Partnership Law Act 2019
Stuff that belongs to your partnership and how to use it
36: Partnership property
Partnership Law Act 2019
How partners share and use land owned by their partnership
37: Partnership land
Partnership Law Act 2019
Land owners who buy more land with shared profits own it together
38: Co-owners of land who purchase other land out of profits
Partnership Law Act 2019
Things bought with business money usually belong to the business
39: Property bought with partnership money
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners treat shared land like personal items, not real estate
40: Partnership land treated as personal property as between partners
Partnership Law Act 2019
Taking partnership property after winning a court case against the whole business
41: Writ of execution against partnership property
Partnership Law Act 2019
Court can use a partner's business money to pay their personal debt
42: Court may charge partner’s interest for their separate judgment debt
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can buy back or purchase a charged share in the business
43: Other partners may redeem or purchase interest
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can agree on their own rules about what they own and how they should act
44: Rules about interests and duties of partners
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners in a business share the money they make and the money they lose equally
45: Partners share equally in capital and profits and contribute equally to losses
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partnership must pay partners back for money spent or debts taken on for the business
46: Firm must indemnify partner for payments made, and personal liabilities incurred, for firm
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can earn interest on extra money they put into the business
47: Entitlement to interest
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can help run the business together
48: Partner may manage business
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners don't get paid extra for their work in the business
49: Partner not entitled to remuneration
Partnership Law Act 2019
You need everyone to say "yes" before adding a new person to your group
50: No new partner without consent
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can make most everyday choices together, but everyone must agree to change the business type
51: Most decisions may be made by majority
Partnership Law Act 2019
Rules for partners to see and copy the partnership's important papers
52: Access to partnership’s records
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can't be kicked out unless everyone agreed to it earlier
53: Expulsion of partner
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners must share all information about the partnership with each other
54: Duty of partners to provide accounts and full information on things affecting partnership
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners must share benefits from partnership deals with each other
55: Accountability of partners for private benefit
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners must share money from similar businesses they start without permission
56: Duty to account for profits of competing business
Partnership Law Act 2019
Understanding what happens when a partner gives their share to someone else
57: Rights of assignee of share in partnership
Partnership Law Act 2019
How partners work together and deal with others in a business team
Partnership Law Act 2019
Words used when talking about partnership money and business
58: Definitions of terms used in this subpart
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners must keep detailed money records for their business
59: Accounting records
Partnership Law Act 2019
You must create special money reports for big partnerships
60: Financial statements must be prepared
Partnership Law Act 2019
Big partnerships need someone to check their money records, unless they choose not to
61: Financial statements must be audited
Partnership Law Act 2019
Audits and their reports must follow all the rules
62: Audit must comply with auditing and assurance standards
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can be fined for not following the rules about money reports
63: Financial reporting offences
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can decide together if they want someone to check their big partnership's money records
64: Partnerships may opt out of audit requirement
Partnership Law Act 2019
If your partnership already reports finances under another law, you don't need to do it again
65: Duties do not apply if alternative financial reporting duties under Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partnership Law Act 2019
Different ways a partnership can end: after a set time, when a project finishes, or when a partner says they want to stop
66: Partnership dissolved at end of term, by end of venture or undertaking, or by notice
Partnership Law Act 2019
How to stop being partners when you didn't set a time limit
67: Ending partnership at will
Partnership Law Act 2019
When partners keep working together after their set time is up
68: Partnership that continues after end of fixed term
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partnership ends when a partner dies or runs out of money
69: Partnership dissolved by death or bankruptcy
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can end the partnership if one partner uses their share as security for a personal debt
70: Partnership may be dissolved if partner’s interest in property is charged
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partnerships must end if they become against the law
71: Partnership dissolved if unlawful
Partnership Law Act 2019
A judge can break up a business team if things aren't working out
72: Court may dissolve partnership
Partnership Law Act 2019
You can ask a court to end a partnership when there are problems
73: Application to court
Partnership Law Act 2019
You can tell people if your partnership ends or someone leaves
74: Right to notify dissolution
Partnership Law Act 2019
Partners can finish up business after a partnership ends
75: Continuing authority of partners for purposes of winding up and completing transactions
Partnership Law Act 2019
How partnership money and property are used when a partnership ends
76: Application of partnership property
Partnership Law Act 2019
If a partnership ends early, you might get back some of the money you paid to join
77: Court may order repayment of premium if partnership prematurely dissolved
Partnership Law Act 2019
What happens if someone lied to you when you joined a business partnership
78: Rights where partnership dissolved for fraud or misrepresentation
Partnership Law Act 2019
What happens to your share when you leave or die in a business partnership
79: Right of outgoing partner or partner’s estate to share profits or obtain interest
Partnership Law Act 2019
Rules for buying a partner's share when they leave or die
80: Option to purchase share of outgoing or deceased partner
Partnership Law Act 2019
When a partner leaves or dies, they're owed money for their part of the business
81: Retiring or deceased partner’s share is debt
Partnership Law Act 2019
How to share things when a business team breaks up
82: Rules for distributing assets on final settlement of accounts
Partnership Law Act 2019
How to use a partnership's money when it ends
84: Application of assets
Partnership Law Act 2019
The old partnership law from 1908 is cancelled and doesn't work anymore
85: Partnership Act 1908 repealed
Partnership Law Act 2019
Changes to other laws are listed in Schedule 4
86: Amendments to other enactments
Partnership Law Act 2019
Money matters and ending partnerships: How to keep track and wrap things up
Partnership Law Act 2019
Rules for moving from the old partnership law to the new one
Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Partnership Law Act 2019
Small fixes to make the Partnership Law Act 2019 easier to understand and use
Schedule 2: Minor amendments to clarify Parliament’s intent or reconcile inconsistencies
Partnership Law Act 2019
A list showing how old law sections match new law sections
Schedule 3: Comparative table
Partnership Law Act 2019
Changes to other laws because of the new Partnership Law Act
Schedule 4: Consequential amendments
Partnership Law Act 2019
Special COVID-19 debt rules for businesses have ended
34A: COVID-19 business debt hibernation may apply
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing Industry Act 2020
This law explains what the Racing Industry Act 2020 aims to achieve
3: Purposes
Racing Industry Act 2020
This law explains how racing works in New Zealand and who's in charge
4: Outline
Racing Industry Act 2020
This part explains what important words mean in the Racing Industry Act 2020
5: Interpretation
Racing Industry Act 2020
The government must follow this law just like everyone else
8: Act binds the Crown
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing codes look after different types of racing and help make sure everything runs smoothly
15: Functions of racing codes
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing groups must write a yearly plan about what they will do
16: Racing codes must prepare statement of intent
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing groups have to make and share a yearly plan about their activities
17: Racing codes must prepare business plan
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing groups must share money from TAB NZ with their racing clubs
19: Racing codes must distribute funds received from TAB NZ to racing clubs
Racing Industry Act 2020
Members can't make money from racing club property
20: No pecuniary interest in club property
Racing Industry Act 2020
You need permission to change or sell your racing club's land
21: Restriction on dealing with racing venue
Racing Industry Act 2020
Special rule for land with racing venues must be written on official records
22: Restriction on dealing must be recorded on record of title
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing Industry Act 2020
This part explains important words used in the racing law
23: Interpretation
Racing Industry Act 2020
Club's leftover money and property goes to bigger racing group when club shuts down
24: Transfer of assets on dissolution of club
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing clubs can share their stuff when they join together
25: Transfer of assets if racing clubs combine
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing clubs can give away extra racecourses to their racing group
26: Transfer of surplus venue by agreement
Racing Industry Act 2020
The Governor-General can step in to move unused racetracks to new owners when people can't agree
27: Transfer of surplus venues by Order in Council
Racing Industry Act 2020
Special rules make it easier to transfer a racing venue when it's no longer needed
32: Effect of transfer of surplus venue
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules that control how races are run and what everyone involved must do
37: Racing rules
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing clubs must talk to others before changing their rules
38: Amendment of racing rules
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing rules must be shared and are like a contract for everyone in racing
39: Availability and status of racing rules
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules about who can enter racecourses during races
40: Rules controlling or prohibiting admission to racecourses
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing rules must follow New Zealand laws
41: Rules must not conflict with any Act or general law
Racing Industry Act 2020
A new group is formed to keep racing fair and honest
42: Racing Integrity Board established
Racing Industry Act 2020
The Racing Integrity Board aims to set and enforce good rules for everyone in racing
43: Objectives of Board
Racing Industry Act 2020
How the Racing Integrity Board is chosen and what its members do
45: Board members
Racing Industry Act 2020
How the Racing Integrity Board gets money to do its job
46: Funding of Board
Racing Industry Act 2020
The racing board makes a yearly plan to show what it will do
47: Board must prepare statement of intent
Racing Industry Act 2020
The Racing Board makes a plan each year about what they'll do
48: Board must prepare business plan
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules for racing decision-makers are in Schedule 2
50: Further provisions relating to adjudicative committees and appeals tribunals
Racing Industry Act 2020
The racing boss can pick people to check if betting places follow the rules
51: Chief executive may appoint inspectors
Racing Industry Act 2020
Inspectors can check racing places without paying and ask for information
52: Powers of inspector
Racing Industry Act 2020
You can be punished for getting in the way of an inspector doing their job
53: Obstructing inspector
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules for horse and dog races, and how to run racing clubs and racecourses
Racing Industry Act 2020
The law creates a new racing organisation called TAB New Zealand
54: TAB New Zealand established
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ is run by a group of people chosen by the Minister
55: Governing body of TAB NZ
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ's main jobs: help people bet and make money to support racing and sports
57: Objectives of TAB NZ
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ's jobs: planning races, managing betting, and helping the racing industry
58: Functions of TAB NZ
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ must create and check its money records each year
59: Accounts and audit
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ must have a check-up every five years to see if it's doing a good job
60: Performance and efficiency audit
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ must be careful with its money and spend wisely
61: TAB NZ must operate in financially responsible manner
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ writes a yearly plan about its goals and shares it with important people
62: TAB NZ must prepare statement of intent
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ makes a yearly plan and talks to racing groups about it
63: TAB NZ must prepare business plan
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ must write a yearly report about their activities and share it with important people
64: Annual report
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ can save extra money in special accounts for future use
65: TAB NZ may maintain reserves
Racing Industry Act 2020
Planning races and deciding when and where they happen
66: Setting of racing calendar and allocation of racing dates
Racing Industry Act 2020
The dates committee can change racing schedules if TAB NZ and racing codes can't agree
67: Change of racing dates, allocations, or conditions
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ gives racing clubs permission to hold betting races
68: Issue of betting licences
Racing Industry Act 2020
Changes to racing dates or rules mean betting licences might need to change too
69: Amendment or revocation of betting licence
Racing Industry Act 2020
No betting licenses for races on some special days and holidays
70: Betting licence must not be issued for certain days
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ gives agreed-upon money to racing groups each year
72: Distribution to codes
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules for sharing out money from betting
73: Regulations relating to distribution from betting profits
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules for the betting company: how it's set up, what it does, and how it shares money from bets
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ can run different kinds of betting on races and sports
74: TAB NZ may conduct betting
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing clubs can run a special type of betting if they follow the rules
75: Racing clubs may conduct equalisator betting
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules for how TAB NZ manages betting on races
76: Racing betting rules
Racing Industry Act 2020
How TAB NZ spends the money it gets from horse racing bets
77: Application of revenue from racing betting
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ needs permission from sports groups to run betting on their events
79: Agreements with New Zealand national sporting organisations
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ can make deals with Sport NZ to allow betting on sports without official NZ groups
80: Agreements with Sport and Recreation New Zealand
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ can use its current offices and tools for sports betting, or set up new ones
81: Use of facilities
Racing Industry Act 2020
How TAB uses money from sports betting
82: Application of revenue from sports betting
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ can make rules about other betting, but they need approval and must follow guidelines
83: Rules relating to other racing or sports betting conducted by TAB NZ
Racing Industry Act 2020
How TAB NZ takes a small part of your bet money for horse races and sports events
84: Deductions for totalisator betting
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ must share new betting rules with the government and put them online for everyone to see
85: Availability of betting rules
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules for how much money you can win when betting on races
86: Amounts of dividends
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules for using TAB NZ's betting systems for special games
87: Use of betting systems for gaming purposes
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ can mix betting money with other countries to make bigger prizes
88: Amalgamation with overseas betting systems
Racing Industry Act 2020
It's illegal for under-18s to bet or for others to help them bet
89: Offences relating to underage betting
Racing Industry Act 2020
You can take legal action if someone doesn't pay up on a fair bet
91: Betting contracts enforceable
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ or racing clubs can choose not to accept your bet
92: Bets may be refused
Racing Industry Act 2020
Racing Industry Act 2020
Asking your local council for permission to open a TAB venue
94: Application for territorial authority consent
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules for making and updating betting shop policies
97: Adoption and review of TAB venue policy
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules to help keep people safe when betting on races and sports
98: Regulations relating to harm prevention and minimisation
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules about who can and can't go into TAB betting places
99: Regulations relating to admission to and exclusion from TAB venues
Racing Industry Act 2020
Rules for keeping problem gamblers away from betting places
100: Regulations relating to exclusion of problem gamblers from TAB venues and racecourses
Racing Industry Act 2020
TAB NZ must share information with the boss when asked
102: TAB NZ must provide information to chief executive
Racing Industry Act 2020
Civil Aviation Act 2023
How the licensing authority decides on applications for international flight licences
180: Consideration of application for scheduled international air service licence
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Getting a licence to fly: what you need to know
181: Grant of licence
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Changing the rules of an airline licence
184: Variation of terms and conditions of licence
Civil Aviation Act 2023
The Minister can let airlines work together on international flights if it helps the public.
199: Minister may authorise international carriage by air
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Some commerce rules don't apply to international flight contracts if they follow special approval rules
204: Application of Commerce Act 1986
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Who is an 'officer' in an organisation, like a company director or chief executive
8: Meaning of officer
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Rules for aviation companies to share information with the public
411: Regulations requiring information disclosure by specified aviation participants
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Airports can charge you for using their services, but they must follow rules when setting these charges.
230: Airport operators may set charges
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Change the area your airport operates in
223: Area covered by registration may be varied
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Some airport rules don't apply to everyone, and the Secretary can decide who gets exempted.
251: Exemptions from requirements of subparts 2 and 3
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Airports must be run like a business, unless you're a council or special organisation.
226: Airport to be operated commercially
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Rules about paying for airport services and other aviation fees
415: Regulations relating to fees and charges
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Rules about how levies are collected and used in aviation
420: Other provisions relating to levies
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Rules for Safety in Aviation: Designating, Classifying, and Certifying Aircraft and Services
53: Rules relating to designation, classification, and certification
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Keep your business information secret if you think it will hurt you
215: Eligible New Zealand operator may request that information be treated as confidential
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
The boss can still make decisions even when others help
102: Subpart does not limit or affect chief executive’s powers
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Don't act if you think someone is being forced or threatened
36: Accredited requestor must not act if reasonable grounds to believe authorisation or instruction is given under threat of physical or mental harm
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules for sharing information by people allowed to ask for it
34: Requirements in regulations or standards for accredited requestors to make information available
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
A company that shares information or does specific tasks as part of the Customer and Product Data Act
10: Regulated data service
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Making data more useful and accessible while promoting safety and innovation
Customer and Product Data Bill
A simple explanation of how this law wants to make it easier for you to control and share your information
Customer and Product Data Bill
Understanding the Big Picture: The Main Ideas Behind the Rules
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
When this law begins to apply to everyone
2: Commencement
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
This law helps you and businesses use data safely to improve services and products
3: Purpose
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
This part explains important words used in the law
5: Interpretation
Customer and Product Data Bill
The government must follow this law too
13: Act binds the Crown
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules for old and new stuff when the law changes
Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules for managing information and making decisions about data sharing
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
You don't have to agree to data sharing to get a product
42: Authorisation must not be required as condition of providing product
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Companies must keep track of how they share people's information
46: Data holder must keep records about regulated data service
Customer and Product Data Bill
Rules about how companies handle your information and products
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules for making the Customer and Product Data Act 2025 work
131: General regulations
Customer and Product Data Bill
Companies must create and follow rules about customer and product information
47: Data holders and accredited requestors must have customer data, product data, and action performance policies
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
This law explains how companies must handle your personal and product information when you or someone you trust asks for it
4: Overview
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Who is in charge of keeping important customer and product information
6: Data holder
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
What the law means by customers and their information
8: Customer, customer data, and designated customer data
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
What products are and what information about them is important
9: Product, product data, and designated product data
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules that explain how to follow the Customer and Product Data Act 2025
138: Standards
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules for special decisions about customer and product information
104: Designation regulations
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Companies must share your personal information with you if you ask correctly
14: Data holder must provide customer data to customer
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Give your info if you say it's okay and the asker is allowed
15: Data holder must provide customer data to accredited requestor if customer’s authorisation is confirmed
Customer and Product Data Bill
Companies must have a computer system ready to handle data requests
27: Data holder must operate electronic system for providing regulated data services
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Data holder must follow verified customer requests from approved requestors
19: Data holder must perform certain actions on accredited requestor’s request if customer’s authorisation is confirmed
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Companies must share specific product info if you ask nicely through a special system
22: Data holder must provide product data to any person
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Businesses must let customers complain if they're unhappy with how their data is used
48: Data holders and accredited requestors must have customer complaints process
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
The boss decides if someone can use customer information
112: Decision by chief executive
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Only you, your helper, or a special approved person can ask for your customer data
43: Only customer, secondary user, or accredited requestor may request regulated data service
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Breaking the rules of an exemption is the same as breaking the original law
142: Effect of breach of term or condition of exemption
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
The Governor-General can let some people not follow parts of this law
141: Exemptions
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules about what information can be shared and who can use it
107: Contents of designation regulations
Customer and Product Data Bill
What is a regulated data service and why is it important?
10: Regulated data service
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
When the boss can stop someone from asking for customer info
118: When chief executive may suspend or cancel accreditation
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules for keeping and sharing customer and product information
32: Requirements for data holders in regulations or standards
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules about asking for, giving, and sharing information
Customer and Product Data Bill
Words and phrases are explained to help understand the law.
Customer and Product Data Bill
This section explains what happens during changes and how things are kept safe.
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Where the law applies and who it affects
11: Territorial application of Act
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
You can check and change who sees your information
40: Customer or secondary user must be able to control authorisation
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
How to ask for permission to handle customer info
109: How application is made
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
How long your permission to ask for data lasts
116: Duration of accreditation
Customer and Product Data Bill
Approved companies must tell the government what they did with people's information each year
113: Annual reporting by accredited requestors
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
How to ask for changes to your accreditation
114: Application to modify accreditation
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Companies with data must follow rules when sharing or using it
31: Data holders must comply with requirements for requests, providing services, and making information available
Customer and Product Data Bill
A computer system that uses electricity to work with information
Customer and Product Data Bill
Rules for making a valid request for information or action
26: When request is valid
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
How to keep your special permission to ask for data
117: Renewal of accreditation
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Someone with special permission to ask for information
7: Accredited requestor
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
The government keeps a list of everyone involved in sharing customer and product data
121: Register of participants in customer and product data system
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
The register helps you find out who can ask for and share customer data
122: Purposes of register
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
What's in the public list of companies that handle your information
126: Contents of register that is publicly available
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
What extra information can data holders and requestors see in the register?
127: Contents of register that is available to data holders and accredited requestors (other than information publicly available under section 126)
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Data holders must tell the government about their status and details
125: Other data holders must provide information to chief executive
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
The boss can ask you for information to help with their job
53: Chief executive may require person to supply information or produce documents
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
You could be fined for not giving requested information or documents
57: Offence for failing to comply with notice to supply information or produce documents
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Rules about paying for services under this law
133: Regulations relating to fees and charges
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
How you might receive important notices about customer and product data
146: Service of notices
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Government groups can be customers, hold data, or ask for data
120: Crown organisations may be customer, data holder, or accredited requestor
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
You can't make deals to avoid following this law
143: No contracting out
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Minister must think carefully before making rules about sharing data
105: Minister must have regard to certain matters when recommending designation regulations
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
The boss checks who you are when you ask for something
111: Chief executive must verify applicant’s identity
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
You must follow special rules to fix problems if you break this law
58: Data holder or accredited requestor must take prescribed steps to avoid, mitigate, or remedy loss or damage caused by contravention
Customer and Product Data Act 2025
Requestors must keep customer data records for 5 years
47: Accredited requestor must keep records about regulated data service
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Stopping your request for approvals before a decision is made
45: Withdrawal of substantive application
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
The government can make rules about paying for fast-track approvals
108: Regulations may set fees, charges, and contributions
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Rules for paying money to help with the costs of fast-track approvals
109: Regulations may impose levies
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Sharing costs when more than one person applies together
112: Liability for costs if application lodged, or to be lodged, by more than 1 person
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Steps to follow before applying for a special project
29: Pre-lodgement requirements for listed project
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Finding out if someone else already has permission for the same activity
30: Identification of existing resource consent for same activity
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Making an agreement before asking to start a fish farm
31: Pre-request aquaculture agreement
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
You can share mining permit details with the boss before applying
37: Mining permit information may be lodged with relevant chief executive
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
The person in charge chooses people to review important applications
50: Panel convener sets up panel
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
EPA can ask for project information from groups and councils to help with applications
90: EPA may request information from relevant administering agencies and local authorities
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Rules for using and protecting New Zealand's conservation land, reserves, wildlife, and national parks
Schedule 6: Approvals relating to Conservation Act 1987, Reserves Act 1977, Wildlife Act 1953, and National Parks Act 1980
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Rules for getting permission to do things that might affect New Zealand wildlife
Schedule 7: Approvals relating to Wildlife Act 1953
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Rules for accessing land to mine or dig under the Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Schedule 11: Approvals relating to Crown Minerals Act 1991
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
How the Minister decides if a project can use the faster approval process
22: Criteria for assessing referral application
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Allowed people can ask for many project approvals at once
42: Authorised person may lodge substantive application for approvals
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
This Act's process replaces normal approval steps for faster decisions
40: Process under this Act applies instead of process under specified Act
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
EPA asks for advice about fish farming in the sea
48: EPA requests recommendation in relation to aquaculture activities
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
You need a special decision for some fish farming permits
80: Aquaculture decision required for certain coastal permits
Fast-track Approvals Act 2024
Panel writes rules for fish farming and sends them to the government
71: Panel provides draft conditions relating to aquaculture activities for recommendation
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