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ACC levies
ACC provides no fault accident insurance cover for all New Zealand citizens, residents and temporary visitors to New Zealand. In return, individuals don’t have the right to sue for personal injury, other than for exemplary damages.
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Building Act 2004
The Building Act 2004 sets out the rules for the construction, alteration, demolition and maintenance of new and existing buildings in New Zealand. The Building Act is the primary legislation governing the building industry. Its purpose is that: people can use buildings safely and without endangering their health.
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Building Compliance
All building work in New Zealand must comply with the Building Code, even if it doesn’t require a building consent. This ensures buildings are safe, healthy and durable for everyone who may use them.
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Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002
The Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 creates a framework within which New Zealand can prepare for, deal with, and recover from local, regional and national emergencies.
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Consumer Guarantees Act 1993
This Act applies to any workplace offering goods or services for domestic use, i.e. external to the business.
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Fair Trading Act 1986
Every operation has an obligation to ensure the service they provide is as expected by their clients, based on the business’ advertising and the information they provide the public. This information should include any risk inherent in the activity.
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Fire Safety and Evacuation of Buildings Regulations 2006
These regulations cover fire safety in buildings and apply to any workplace. Each operation should ensure that they have documented emergency procedures, fire-management equipment, and that fire emergency information is made available to everyone on each work site, whether indoor or outdoor, urban or rural.
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Fire & Emergency New Zealand Act 2017
This Bill marks the most significant change to New Zealand’s fire legislation in 70 years. It creates a single fire organisation – Fire and Emergency New Zealand, and brings together New Zealand’s rural, urban, paid and volunteer firefighters for the first time. It covers emergencies, fire control, industry brigades, water supply, and evacuation schemes.
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Food Act 2014
The Food Act 2014 came into force on 1 March 2016. It applies to all new food businesses from that date but existing food businesses will transition between 2016 and 2019. You must apply to register your food control plan or national programme business 3 months before the final date for registration.
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Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996
This Act aims to protect the environment and people’s health and safety by preventing or managing the adverse effects of hazardous substances and new organisms. It includes a toolbox of regulations to manage hazardous substances, including labelling, packaging, storage, transportation, manufacture, use and disposal.
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This Act is relevant to operations that use hazardous substances (particularly in large quantities) such as petrol, cleaning products, solvents and agrichemicals. -
Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003
Provides mechanisms to ensure that health practitioners are competent and fit to practice their professions. This could be relevant to operators who offer their service as a form of occupational, physical, or psychological therapy.
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Local Government Act 2002
This Act sets out the general powers of councils, the community outcomes process, and planning and accountability requirements. Local government bylaws can restrict use of waterways and public land by operators, or can institute a permit or licence system. They can impose fines for the misuse of resources, or poor waste management, among other things.
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Misuse of Drugs Act 1975
The Misuse of Drugs Act controls the licit and illicit use of controlled drugs, including in the workplace. It could have particular relevance to operations that want to maintain a more specialist and extensive first aid kit containing controlled medications for pain or other purposes.
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New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000
Promotes and protects the rights of health consumers and disability service consumers. Especially relevant to businesses that cater to people with disabilities, and those that need to screen out clients with disabilities.
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Privacy Act 1993
The Privacy Act 1993 provides the general framework for promoting and protecting individual privacy. It does so by establishing certain principles with respect to the collection, use, disclosure of and access to information relating to individuals. It applies to public and private sector agencies. It also established the role of Privacy Commissioner to investigate complaints about interferences with individual privacy.
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Sale & Supply of Alcohol Act 2012
This Act covers the safe and responsible sale, supply, and consumption of alcohol and the minimisation of harm caused by its excessive or inappropriate use.
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Smoke-free Environments Act 1990
This Act applies to any workplace. An employer can provide an area for smokers, but it must not be inside any work building or indoor public area.
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