Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992

19E Training of health and safety representatives

• (1) An employer must allow a health and safety representative 2 days' paid leave each year to attend health and safety training approved under section 19G.

  (2) The number of days' paid leave that an employer must allow a health and safety representative to take in a year is subject to the maximum total number of days' paid leave that that employer is required to allow under section 19F.

  (3) Sections 78 and 79 of the Employment Relations Act 2000 apply when a health and safety representative is proposing to take, and is taking, the leave as if—

  • (a) the representative were an eligible employee; and

  • (b) the leave were employment relations education leave.

  (4) In this section and section 19F, year—

  • (a) means a period of 12 months beginning on 1 April and ending on the close of 31 March; and

  • (b) includes the period beginning on 5 May 2003 and ending on the close of 31 March 2004.

  (5) Subsections (1) and (2) are subject to section 19C(4).

  Section 19E: inserted, on 5 May 2003, by section 13 of the Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 86).