This page contains different parts of laws about Anti-discrimination.
40: Purpose of Code
45: Corporation's obligations in respect of Code
30G: Procedure on appeals
322: Regulations relating to definitions
69AA: Object of this Part
69AAC: Requirements relating to request
69AAF: Grounds for refusal of request by employer
124: Purpose of Part
129: Recognition as refugee
130: Recognition as protected person under Convention Against Torture
131: Recognition as protected person under Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
132: Claims not to be accepted from certain persons
146: Cancellation of person's recognition as refugee or protected person (other than New Zealand citizen)
164: Limitation on deportation of persons recognised or claiming recognition as refugee or protected person
351: Exploitation of unlawful employees and temporary workers
376: Role and rights of responsible adult
377: Views of minor to be considered
392: Relationship between this Act and Human Rights Act 1993
424: Person recognised as refugee under former Act treated as recognised as refugee under this Act
Schedule 1: Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
110A: Adverse conduct for prohibited health and safety reason
3: Purpose
10: Purpose of local government
11: Role of local authority
12: Status and powers
13: Performance of functions under other enactments
14: Principles relating to local authorities
15: Triennial agreements
20: Outline of Part
24: Scope of local government reorganisation
27: Application to be called city council or district council
30: Functions and powers of Commission
38: Outline of Part
39: Governance principles
40: Local governance statements
43: Certain members indemnified
49: Establishment of community boards
52: Role of community boards
56: Consultation required before council-controlled organisation established
57: Appointment of directors
76: Decision-making
78: Community views in relation to decisions
79: Compliance with procedures in relation to decisions
80: Identification of inconsistent decisions
82: Principles of consultation
83: Special consultative procedure
86: Use of special consultative procedure in relation to making, amending, or revoking bylaws
87: Other use of special consultative procedure
93: Long-term plan
96: Effect of resolution adopting long-term plan or annual plan
97: Certain decisions to be taken only if provided for in long-term plan
128: Process for making assessments
145: General bylaw-making power for territorial authorities
155: Determination whether bylaw made under this Act is appropriate
156: Consultation requirements when making, amending, or revoking bylaws made under this Act
160: Procedure for and nature of review
191: Local authority not authorised to create nuisance
253: Outline of Part
256: Interpretation
275: First policy on appointment of directors
280: Long-term plan for period beginning on 1 July 2006
291: Reorganisation proposals
295: Communities and community boards
67B: Effect of trial provision under section 67A
69Y: Employer's obligation
6: Matters of national importance
39: Hearings to be public and without unnecessary formality
58: Contents of New Zealand coastal policy statements
156: Rules of natural justice to be observed
3: Purposes
4: Principles to be applied in performing functions or duties, or exercising powers, under this Act
67: Territorial authority may grant building consent subject to waivers or modifications of building code
69: Waiver or modification may only be granted by chief executive in certain cases
112: Alterations to existing buildings
116A: Code compliance requirements: subdivision
117: Definition for sections 118 to 120
118: Access and facilities for persons with disabilities to and within buildings
119: Acceptable solution for requirements of persons with disabilities
120: Symbols of access must be displayed
170: Chief executive must consult in performing certain functions
176: Meaning of party
Schedule 2: Buildings in respect of which requirement for provision of access and facilities for persons with disabilities applies
8: Applications for incorporation may no longer be made by societies
15: Name of board
19: Form of contracts
20: Presumption of validity of acts of trustees, etc
21: Powers in respect of property
22: Power to incorporate for charitable purposes under other Acts
30: Exemption from fees
32: Property may be disposed of for other charitable purposes
33: Extension of powers or alteration of mode of administration of trust
38: Meaning of term charitable purpose in this Part
40: Property may be disposed of for other charitable purposes
41: Extension of powers or alteration of mode of administration of trust
42: Contributor or money holder may proceed under this Part
43: Convening meeting of contributors
44: Subsequent advertisement or notice of other newly proposed purpose
45: Proceedings at meetings
46: Scheme committee
51: Administration of schemes
55: Power to waive non-compliance with procedural requirements
56: Restrictions on approval of schemes
61: Alteration of rules of society or corporation not to affect existing trusts
61B: Inclusion of non-charitable and invalid purposes not to invalidate a trust
63: Repeals, amendment, and savings
139: Meaning of interested
173: Representative actions
66O: Landlord may make house rules
98AA: Dealing in people under 18 for sexual exploitation, removal of body parts, or engagement in forced labour
98D: Trafficking in persons
128A: Allowing sexual activity does not amount to consent in some circumstances
129A: Sexual conduct with consent induced by certain threats
138: Sexual exploitation of person with significant impairment
144A: Sexual conduct with children and young people outside New Zealand
204B: Further offences relating to female genital mutilation
307A: Threats of harm to people or property
261A: Purpose of rules specifying performance measures
261D: Incorporation of documents by reference in rules
11: Freedom camping bylaws
99A: Pre-election report
3: Purpose
4: Interpretation
9: Relevant documents to use plain language
10: Plain language guidance must be issued
15: Other Acts not affected
24AA: Purpose of local government reorganisation provisions
24A: Transitional modification or suspension of certain statutory requirements after issue of reorganisation plan
258D: Minister may appoint Crown Manager
258F: Minister may appoint Commission
258K: Local authority members remain in office but must not act during term of Commission
258L: Extraordinary vacancy when Commission appointed or during term of Commission
258O: Minister must publish list in Gazette
258P: Minister must have regard to published list
258Y: Protection from liability for Ministerial appointees
258ZA: Decisions and directions of Crown Manager or Commission remain in force until local authority decides otherwise
259C: Auditor-General must report on disclosures made under certain regulations
27A: Change of name of unitary authorities
4A: Penalty for certain breaches of duty of good faith
147B: Criteria for making resolutions relating to bylaws
6A: Status of examples
7: Object of this Part
8: Voluntary membership of unions
9: Prohibition on preference
10: Contracts, agreements, or other arrangements inconsistent with section 8 or section 9
11: Undue influence
18: Union entitled to represent members' interests
20: Access to workplaces
21: Conditions relating to access to workplaces
24: Issue of certificate of exemption
25: Penalty for certain acts in relation to entering workplace
26: Union meetings
31: Object of this Part
32: Good faith in bargaining for collective agreement
33: Duty of good faith requires parties to conclude collective agreement unless genuine reason not to
47: When secret ballots required after employer initiates bargaining for single collective agreement
50: Consolidation of bargaining
50F: Statements made by parties during facilitation
50I: Party must deal with Authority in good faith
50J: Remedy for serious and sustained breach of duty of good faith in section 4 in relation to collective bargaining
51: Ratification of collective agreement
54: Form and content of collective agreement
59B: Breach of duty of good faith to pass on, in certain circumstances, in individual employment agreement terms and conditions agreed in collective bargaining or in collective agreement
59C: Breach of duty of good faith to pass on, in certain circumstances, in collective agreement provisions agreed in other collective bargaining or another collective agreement
60: Object of this Part
60A: Good faith in bargaining for individual employment agreement
62: Terms and conditions for first 30 days of employment of new employee who is not member of union
63: Terms and conditions of employment of new employee who is not member of union
63A: Bargaining for individual employment agreement or individual terms and conditions in employment agreement
65: Form and content of individual employment agreement
65A: Deduction of union fees
66: Fixed term employment
67: Probationary arrangements
68: Unfair bargaining for individual employment agreements
69: Remedies for unfair bargaining
69E: Examples of contracting in, contracting out, and subsequent contracting
69H: Employee bargaining for alternative arrangements
69J: Employment of employee who elects to transfer to new employer treated as continuous
69OG: Subpart prevails over agreement
69P: Interpretation
69Q: Bargaining fee clause does not come into force unless agreed to first by employer and union and then by secret ballot
69R: Employer to notify employees if bargaining fee clause agreed to
69S: Which employees bargaining fee clause applies to
69U: Amount of bargaining fee
69W: Validity of bargaining fee clause
70: Object of this Part
71: Interpretation
73: Union entitled to allocate employment relations education leave
76: Allocation of employment relations education leave calculated in respect of another employer
78: Eligible employee proposing to take employment relations education leave
80: Object of this Part
86: Unlawful strikes or lockouts
88: Suspension of non-striking employees where work not available during strike
97: Performance of duties of striking or locked out employees
101: Object of this Part
102: Employee may pursue personal grievance under this Act
103: Personal grievance
103A: Test of justification
104: Discrimination
105: Prohibited grounds of discrimination for purposes of section 104
106: Exceptions in relation to discrimination
107: Definition of union membership status or involvement in union activities for purposes of section 104
108: Sexual harassment
109: Racial harassment
110: Duress
111: Definitions relating to personal grievances
112: Choice of procedures
114: Raising personal grievance
115: Further provision regarding exceptional circumstances under section 114
116: Special provision where sexual harassment alleged
117: Sexual or racial harassment by person other than employer
118: Sexual or racial harassment after steps not taken to prevent repetition
119: Presumption in discrimination cases
120: Statement of reasons for dismissal
121: Statements privileged
122: Nature of personal grievance may be found to be of different type from that alleged
123: Remedies
125: Reinstatement to be primary remedy
127: Authority may order interim reinstatement
128: Reimbursement
129: Person bound by, or party to, employment agreement may pursue dispute under this Act
142: Limitation period for actions other than personal grievances
143: Object of this Part
144: Mediation services
147: Procedure in relation to mediation services
151: Enforcement of terms of settlement agreed or authorised
153: Independence of mediation personnel
155: Arbitration
194A: Application for review by certain employees
223: Labour Inspectors
236: Representation
238: No contracting out
245: Existing procedures in relation to disputes and personal grievances
12D: Section 12A subject to other enactments
Schedule 1A: Employees to whom subpart 1 of Part 6A applies
Schedule 5: Enactments amended
17A: Delivery of services
48C: Purpose of local boards
48D: Unitary authority decision making shared between governing body and local boards
48H: Functions, duties, and powers of local boards
48I: General scheme
48J: Decision-making responsibilities of governing body
48K: Decision-making responsibilities of local boards
48L: Principles for allocation of decision-making responsibilities of unitary authority
48N: Local board plans
48O: Local board agreements
48P: Consultation required on proposed content of local board agreement
48R: Disputes about allocation of decision-making responsibilities or proposed bylaws
48S: Local Government Commission to determine disputes
76AA: Significance and engagement policy
83AA: Summary of information
93B: Purpose of consultation document for long-term plan
93D: Content of consultation document for amendment of long-term plan
93E: Additional content of consultation document for adoption or amendment of long-term plan where section 97 applies to proposed decision
95A: Purpose and content of consultation document for annual plan
150B: Local boards may propose bylaw
150C: Local board must consult on proposed bylaw
150D: Local board may propose amendment to bylaw
150E: Local board may propose revocation of bylaw
69ZEA: Exemption from requirement to provide rest breaks and meal breaks
Schedule 1AA: Application, savings, and transitional provisions relating to amendments made to this Act after 1 January 2013
5A: Provisions affecting application of amendments to this Act
69CD: Provision of information for purposes of giving warranty
69FA: Employer's breach of obligations not to affect employee's rights and new employer's obligations
69LC: Implied warranty by employer of transferring employees
69ZEB: Compensatory measures
144AB: Party or accessory liability for sexual acts with children or young people outside New Zealand done by, or involving, foreigner principal parties
5: Guide to this Act
84: Meaning of disability
181: Application of health and safety legislation, etc
426: Regulations: use of disability allowance to fund specified expenses
67D: Availability provision
67E: Employee may refuse to perform certain work
67F: Employee not to be treated adversely because of refusal to perform certain work
67G: Cancellation of shifts
67H: Secondary employment provisions
133A: Matters Authority and court to have regard to in determining amount of penalty
142A: Object of this Part
142M: Banning orders
142N: Terms of banning order
142T: More than one kind of order may be made for same breach
142U: No pecuniary penalty and criminal sanction or other penalty for same conduct
142W: Involvement in breaches
142Z: State of mind of directors, employees, or agents attributed to body corporate or other principal
142ZA: Conduct of directors, employees, or agents attributed to body corporate or other principal
235G: Infringement fee and penalty not payable for the same conduct
106: Who may apply for approval
288F: Procedure and appeals relating to section 288C orders
12: Discrimination to be unlawful act
12A: Choice of procedures
44: Subletting or parting with possession by tenant
6: Principles of Treaty of Waitangi
2B: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
22A: Acknowledgement of registration
261I: Secretary may make rules establishing requirements of form
69AB: Object of this Part
69ABA: Interpretation
69ABB: When and why employee may make request
69ABEA: Proof of family violence
69ABG: Employee has choice of procedure at initial stage
69ABK: Limitation on challenging employer
108A: Adverse treatment in employment of people affected by family violence
18A: Union delegates entitled to reasonable paid time to represent employees
30A: Union may provide employer with information about role and functions of union to pass on to prospective employees
63B: Additional employer obligations when bargaining for terms and conditions of employment under section 62
134: Application of Human Rights Act 1993
25A: COVID-19 business debt hibernation may apply
103B: Joining controlling third party to personal grievance
115A: Notifying controlling third party of personal grievance
123A: Remedies where controlling third party caused or contributed to personal grievance
42B: Minor changes
11: Plain language officers
161B: Instruments that have significant legislative effect
161C: Other supporting definitions
7: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
14: Act does not confer or impose legal rights or obligations
12: Reporting agency must report to Commissioner
5: What is plain language
6: What documents must use plain language
13: Commissioner must report to Minister
110B: Retaliation against whistleblower
278B: Corporation to report in each financial year on access to accident compensation scheme by Māori and identified population groups
30A: Society may reregister under Incorporated Societies Act 2022
235DA: What infringement notice must contain
10: Power to issue dispersal notice
14: Requirement to disperse
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