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New Zealand Legislation: Acts

Acts are laws made by Parliament

Reprint as at 1 October 2008

Equal Pay Act 1972

Public Act	1972 No 118
Date of assent	20 October 1972

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.

This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.

Contents

2 Interpretation

2A Unlawful discrimination

3 Criteria to be applied

4 Determination of equal pay

5 Interim increases

6 Implementation of equal pay in awards

7 Implementation of equal pay in other instruments

8 New classification of work

9 Court may state principles for implementation of equal pay

10 Approval by Court or Employment Relations Authority of instruments or proposed instruments

11 Court may make partial award

12 Further powers of Employment Relations Authority

13 Recovery of remuneration based on equal pay

14 Procedure and jurisdiction of Employment Relations Authority

15 When dismissal or reduction of employee an offence

16 Powers of Inspectors

17 Records to be kept by employers

17A Advice of increments of pay and other increases in pay to be given to female employees

20 Act to be administered in Department of Labour [Repealed]

An Act to make provision for the removal and prevention of discrimination, based on the sex of the employees, in the rates of remuneration of males and females in paid employment, and for matters incidental thereto