New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 1 January 2002
| Public Act | 1989 No 6 |
| Date of assent | 22 March 1989 |
| Commencement | see section 1(2) |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
This Act is administered by the Department of Labour.
1 Short Title and commencement
Part 1
Dissolution of Waterfront Industry Commission
4 Dissolution of Waterfront Industry Commission
6 Power of Commission to impose levy
8 Final accounts of Commission
10 Duties and functions of liquidator while Commission in existence
11 Duties and functions of liquidator after Commission dissolved
13 Power of liquidator to impose levies
14 Power of liquidator to direct Commission to cease to operate at port
15 Vesting of assets and liabilities
16 Obligation to purchase buildings at ports
18 Dispute concerning purchase price
19 Date for payment of purchase price
20 Surrender of lease and cancellation of licences and agreements
21 Protection of subtenants and occupiers
22 Registration of surrender of lease
23 Term of office of liquidator
26 Application of certain Acts to liquidator and staff
29 Access to property and records
30 Distribution of accumulated funds
31 Conclusion of liquidator's role
35 Effect of dissolution of Commission
Savings and transitional provisions
38 Savings in respect of union rules
39 Savings in respect of awards and agreements
40 Currency of principal orders
42 References to registered employers
43 Negation of preference for workers on bureau register
An Act—
(a) to reform the law relating to employment on the waterfront, and, in particular,—
(i) to remove the special procedures regulating the conduct of relations between workers and employers in the waterfront industry; and
(ii) to provide for an orderly transition from the existing statutory framework regulating employment on the waterfront; and
(b) to provide for the dissolution of the Waterfront Industry Commission; and
(c) to repeal the Waterfront Industry Commission Act 1976; and
(d) to make provision incidental thereto
