New Zealand Legislation: Regulations
Regulations are laws made under Acts
(1) The criterion for reporting serious misconduct is that an employer suspects on reasonable grounds that a teacher has engaged in any of the following:
(a) the physical abuse of a child or young person (which includes physical abuse carried out under the direction, or with the connivance, of the teacher):
(b) the sexual abuse of a child or young person (which includes sexual abuse carried out under the direction, or with the connivance, of the teacher):
(c) the psychological abuse of a child or young person, which may include (but is not limited to) physical abuse of another person, or damage to property, inflicted in front of a child or young person, threats of physical or sexual abuse, and harassment:
(d) being involved in an inappropriate relationship with any person under the age of 16 years:
(e) being involved in an inappropriate relationship with a student with whom the teacher is, or was when the relationship commenced, in contact with as a result of his or her position as a teacher:
(f) the neglect or ill-treatment of any child or young person in the teacher's care:
(g) the neglect or ill-treatment of any animal in the teacher's care:
(h) theft, or fraud:
(i) involvement in the manufacture, cultivation, supply, dealing, or use of controlled drugs:
(j) permitting, or acquiescing in, the manufacture, cultivation, supply, dealing, or use of controlled drugs by any child or young person:
(k) viewing, accessing, or possessing pornographic material while on school premises or engaged on school business:
(l) viewing, accessing, or possessing pornographic material that depicts children or young persons or that depicts animals engaged in sexual acts with humans:
(m) breaching the school's standards or rules concerning the use of alcohol at the school or while on school business:
(n) any other act or omission that could be the subject of a prosecution for an offence punishable by imprisonment for a term of 3 months or more:
(o) any act or omission that brings, or is likely to bring, discredit to the profession.
(2) Physical, sexual, or psychological abuse is reportable whether it occurs as—
(a) a single act; or
(b) a number of acts forming part of a pattern of behaviour, even if some or all of those acts, viewed in isolation, would be minor or trivial.
(3) In this rule, school includes an early childhood education and care centre.
Rule 9(1)(o): added, on 1 August 2008, by rule 4 of the New Zealand Teachers Council (Making Reports and Complaints) Amendment Rules 2008 (SR 2008/215).
Rule 9(3): amended, on 1 December 2008, by section 60(2) of the Education Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 19).