New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 1 May 2011
| Public Act | 1950 No 52 |
| Date of assent | 23 November 1950 |
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 by the Department of Labour.
1 Short Title and commencement
3 Machinery to which Act does not apply
4 Act not to apply to steamships, tramways, etc. [Repealed]
8 Owners to allow entry and inspection
10 Inspector's certificate of appointment
12 Young persons not to be employed in certain cases [Repealed]
Duties and liabilities of owners of machinery
16 Guarding of transmission machinery
17 Guarding of other machinery
17A Machinery to be safe when manufactured, sold, or hired
17D Construction and maintenance of machinery
17E Protection from harmful noise [Repealed]
18 Duties of users of machinery
19 Restriction on use of machinery if person exposed to risk of injury [Repealed]
19A Persons not to operate machinery unless trained [Repealed]
20 Faulty, defective, and insufficiently guarded machinery
21A Regulation of amusement devices
21B Safety of tractors [Repealed]
21C Children on tractors and implements [Repealed]
22 Inspector to be notified of accident [Repealed]
23 Inquiry into cause of accident
Procedure as to requisitions by Inspector
25 Form and service of requisitions
26 Appeals against requisitions
26B Codes of practice to be approved by Minister
26C Proof of codes of practice
Offences, penalties, and procedure
28 When owners and mortgagees not liable
30 Application of part of fine to person injured [Repealed]
31 Power to order contravention to be remedied [Repealed]
32 Forging of certificates, etc
33 Owner may have actual offender charged
34 Proceedings to be before District Court Judge alone
36 Matters may be completed by different Inspectors
37 Responsibility of owners, etc, maintained
39 Regulations [Repealed]
An Act to make provision for the inspection of certain kinds of machinery and for the safety of persons working with machinery to which the Act applies
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
