This Act may be cited as the State-Owned Enterprises Amendment Act (No. 4) 1988, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall come into force on the day on which it receives the Royal assent.

The First Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the item relating to Post Office Bank Limited, the following item:

The First Schedule to the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after the item relating to Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited, the following item:

The Second Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the item relating to Post Office Bank Limited, the following item:

The Second Schedule to the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after the item relating to Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited, the following item:

Radio New Zealand Limited and Television New Zealand Limited shall each operate a personnel policy that complies with the principle of being a good employer.

For the purposes of this section a “good employer” is an employer who operates a personnel policy containing provisions generally accepted as necessary for the fair and proper treatment of employees in all aspects of their employment, including provisions requiring—

Nothing in section 4(1)(b) of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 applies in respect of Radio New Zealand Limited or Television New Zealand Limited.

Radio New Zealand Limited and Television New Zealand Limited—

For the purposes of this section and section 4 of this Act, an equal employment opportunities programme means a programme that is aimed at the identification and elimination of all aspects of policies, procedures, and other institutional barriers that cause or perpetuate, or tend to cause or perpetuate, inequality in respect of the employment of any persons or group of persons.

Where the circumstances giving rise to a personal grievance by a person employed by Radio New Zealand Limited or Television New Zealand Limited are also such that that person would be entitled to make a complaint under the Human Rights Commission Act 1977 or the Race Relations Act 1971 or to exercise a right of review or appeal, that person may take one but not more than one of the following steps:

Nothing in this Act or the principal Act authorises any Minister of the Crown to give a direction to Radio New Zealand Limited or Television New Zealand Limited, or any subsidiary of Radio New Zealand Limited or Television New Zealand Limited, or any director or officer or employee of Radio New Zealand Limited or Television New Zealand Limited or any such subsidiary, in respect of—

Subject to this section, Radio New Zealand Limited and Television New Zealand Limited may, in such circumstances as each may determine, engage officers and employees under individual contracts of service for such terms of office or appointment, and on such terms and conditions of service, as each may decide.

Subject to subsection (3) of this section, neither Radio New Zealand Limited nor Television New Zealand Limited shall engage any person under subsection (1) of this section under a contract that provides for the full-time or substantially full-time employment of that person if, at the time when the contract is entered into, the number of persons who are full-time or substantially full-time employees of the company and who are engaged under that subsection exceeds—

of the number of persons who are full-time or substantially fulltime employees of the company (including persons who are such employees by virtue of contracts under subsection (1) of this section).

The percentages specified in subsection (2) of this section may be altered from time to time by agreement between—

Notwithstanding section 8 of the principal Act, nothing in any award or agreement registered under the Labour Relations Act 1987 shall apply in relation to officers and employees of Radio New Zealand Limited or Television New Zealand Limited engaged under subsection (1) of this section.

Nothing in this Act—

This section expires with the close of the 30th day of November 1990.

The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby amended in the manner indicated in that Schedule.

The Queen Elizabeth the Second Arts Council of New Zealand Amendment Act 1980 is hereby consequentially repealed.

Nothing in Part V of the Broadcasting Regulations 1977 shall apply in relation to warrants held by Radio New Zealand Limited or Television New Zealand Limited under the Broadcasting Act 1976.