New Zealand Legislation: Acts

21 Review of Code

• (1) The Commissioner shall from time to time, as often as is necessary to ensure that a complete review of the Code is carried out at intervals of not more than 3 years, review the Code and make recommendations to the Minister on what changes (if any) the Commissioner considers should be made to the Code.

  (2) The Commissioner—

  • (a) Shall whenever the Minister so requests; and

  • (b) May at any time, on the Commissioner's own initiative,—

  review the Code, or any part of the Code, and make recommendations to the Minister on what changes (if any) the Commissioner considers should be made to the Code.

  (3) Section 22 of this Act shall apply, with all necessary modifications, in relation to any recommendations made by the Commissioner under this section as if those recommendations were a draft Code to which section 19(1) of this Act applies.

  (4) Within 12 sitting days after receiving any recommendations from the Commissioner in accordance with subsection (1) or, as the case may be, subsection (2) of this section, the Minister shall lay a copy of those recommendations before the House of Representatives.