New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
The Commission may—
(a) recognise any programme of industry training (undertaken or to be undertaken pursuant to 1 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) (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.
Section 18 heading: amended, on 1 January 2003, by section 20 of the Industry Training Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 51).
Section 18: amended, on 1 January 2003, by section 20 of the Industry Training Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 51).
Section 18(a): amended, on 1 January 2003, by section 20 of the Industry Training Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 51).
Section 18(b): amended, on 1 January 2003, by section 20 of the Industry Training Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 51).
