Crown Organisations (Criminal Liability) Act 2002

6 Prosecutions against Crown organisations

• (1) A Crown organisation may be prosecuted (by the bringing of proceedings in the manner provided for in the Summary Proceedings Act 1957) for any of the following offences:

  • (a) an offence against the Building Act 2004:

  • (b) an offence under section 49 or section 50 of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992:

  • (c) an offence against the Resource Management Act 1991.

  (2) This section does not affect any liability of a Crown organisation that arises independently of this section to prosecution for an offence.

  Section 6(1)(a): substituted, on 31 March 2005, by section 414 of the Building Act 2004 (2004 No 72).

  Section 6(1)(c): added, on 1 October 2009, by section 163(3) of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).