New Zealand Legislation: Acts

18 Powers of Commission in relation to other training programmes

• The Commission may—

  • (a) Recognise any programme of industry training (undertaken or to be undertaken pursuant to one or more employment contracts) that, in the Commission's opinion, demonstrates (fully or to a large extent) the following characteristics:

    • (i) An obligation on each employee who is undertaking or will undertake the training, and on the employee's employer, to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the employee is taught, and acquires, skills characteristic of or likely to be valuable to people engaged in a particular industry or 2 or more industries:

    • (ii) Provision for most or all of those skills to be acquired by means of practical training in the course of the employee's employment, but with the possibility of the augmentation of the training by formal instruction received elsewhere:

    • (iii) Provision for some formal recognition that the employee has acquired those skills if the employee in fact acquires them:

  • (b) Issue certificates of successful completion of programmes of industry training recognised under paragraph (a) of this section (other than programmes in respect of which the qualifications authority has notified the Commission that it has registered skill standards and accepted arrangements for monitoring the delivery of training and assessing trainees):

  • (c) Establish and disestablish committees for the purposes of this section:

  • (d) Delegate to any such committee, unconditionally or subject to any conditions it thinks fit, any of its powers under this section.

  The heading to section 18 was amended, as from 1 January 2003, by section 20 Industry Training Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 51) by substituting the word “Commission” for the word “Board”.

  Section 18 was amended, as from 1 January 2003, by section 20 Industry Training Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 51) by substituting the word “Commission” for the word “Board” in each place where it occurs.

  Paragraph (a) was amended, as from 1 January 2003, by section 20 Industry Training Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 51) by substituting the word “Commission's” for the word “Board's”.