Health and Safety in Employment (Adventure Activities) Amendment Regulations 2012: revoked, on 4 April 2016, pursuant to regulation 20 of the Health and Safety at Work (Adventure Activities) Regulations 2016 (LI 2016/19).

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 19th day of November 2012

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.

Pursuant to section 21 of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister of Labour given after the requirements in section 21(2) of that Act have been met, makes the following regulations.

1	Title
2	Commencement
3	Principal regulations
4	Regulation 20 amended (Publication of safety audit standards)
	Explanatory note
	Gazette Information
	Reprint notes

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Health and Safety in Employment (Adventure Activities) Amendment Regulations 2012.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 15 December 2012.

3 Principal regulations

These regulations amend the Health and Safety in Employment (Adventure Activities) Regulations 2011 (the principal regulations).

4 Regulation 20 amended (Publication of safety audit standards)

After regulation 20(3), insert:

(3A)

Safety audit standards must include standards or requirements to manage the risks of drug and alcohol use by operators, employees, or other persons through whom adventure activities are provided.

Michael Webster,
for Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 15 December 2012, amend the Health and Safety in Employment (Adventure Activities) Regulations 2011 (the principal regulations).

The principal regulations require that any safety audit standards published by the Secretary for the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment for adventure activity operators specify standards or requirements for reducing the risks of providing those adventure activities.

This amendment requires that any published safety audit standards include standards or requirements addressing the risks of drug or alcohol use by persons providing adventure activities.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 22 November 2012.

Reprints notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the Health and Safety in Employment (Adventure Activities) Amendment Regulations 2012 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.

2 Legal status

Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.

3 Editorial and format changes

Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

Health and Safety at Work (Adventure Activities) Regulations 2016 (LI 2016/19): regulation 20

Health and Safety in Employment (Adventure Activities) Amendment Regulations 2012