New Zealand Legislation: Acts

46 Enforcement officers may issue formal warnings

• (1) An enforcement officer may issue 1 or more formal warnings to a person if the enforcement officer has reasonable grounds to believe that that person has breached section 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 25.

  (2) A formal warning must—

  • (a) state—

    • (i) that the enforcement officer believes that the person to whom the warning is issued is in breach of section 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 25; and

    • (ii) the grounds for that belief; and

    • (iii) the consequences that that person may face for a breach of section 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 25 if that person does not take steps to remedy the breach; and

  • (b) be in the prescribed form; and

  • (c) be issued in the manner specified in regulations made under section 82.

  Compare: 2003 No 51 s 338