New Zealand Legislation: Acts

3E Application of Act to persons receiving on the job training or gaining work experience

• (1) This Act, except for Part 2A, applies when a person who is not an employee is in a place of work for the purpose of receiving on the job training or gaining work experience (person A).

  (2) For the purposes of this Act,—

  • (a) person A must be treated as if he or she were an employee of the person who has agreed to provide the on the job training or work experience (person B); and

  • (b) person B must be treated as if that person were person A's employer; and

  • (c) person A must be treated as if he or she were at work when in the place of work for the purposes set out in subsection (1).

  Sections 3A to 3F were inserted, as from 5 May 2003, by section 6 Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 86). See section 31 of that Act as to the general transitional provision.