New Zealand Legislation: Bills

21 Regulations and bylaws may be made by referring to or incorporating New Zealand standards

• (1) If regulations or bylaws may be made under any Act prescribing, defining, or making other provision in relation to goods, services, processes, or practices of any kind, then the regulation or bylaw may be made by referring to or incorporating in whole or in part, with or without modification, a New Zealand standard relating to goods, services, processes, or practices of that kind.

  (2) If a bylaw is made or is proposed to be made by referring to a New Zealand standard,—

  • (a) no resolution making the bylaw and no copy of the bylaw is complete unless it has attached to it a copy of the standard or the part of the standard referred to (together with any text that the standard or part incorporates by reference) and states or shows any modification made to it by the person or body making the bylaw:

  • (b) the object or purport of the bylaw is sufficiently stated for the purposes of any enactment requiring that public notice be given of it if the notice refers to the standard by the title and number given to it by Standards NZ and, in the case of a bylaw referring to part only of a standard, states the number and heading of the part referred to.

  Compare: 1988 No 5 s 22