• report back from Select Committee now expected by end of May (originally 31 March)
• 2 or 3 months for the passage of the Bill through the remainder of the parliamentary process
• final effective time frame anticipated to be early 2016 subject to above
http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/sc/details/transport-industrial-relations/00DBHOH_BBSC_SCTIR_1/business-before-the-transport-and-industrial-relations
Regulations Exposure Draft Release
MBIE has released the first exposure drafts of the proposed first wave of regulations for public consultation. The links to the drafts and cabinet papers can be found below:
http://www.mbie.govt.nz/what-we-do/workplace-health-and-safety-reform/development-of-regulations-to-support-the-new-health-and-safety-at-work-act
http://www.mbie.govt.nz/what-we-do/workplace-health-and-safety-reform/development-of-regulations-to-support-the-new-health-and-safety-at-work-act/exposure-drafts-of-phase-one-regulations