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DISCRIMINATION:  THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.

This site will give you a lot of information about discrimination in all walks of New Zealand life. 

  • We will give you direct access to the relevant Act of Parliament.
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  • We will give you about the subject of discrimination in New Zealand.

We also provide you with a direct link to the Government legislation site where you can look up ALL Acts of Parliament and Regulations and Rules. An Act is also known as a Statute. A Regulation is also sometimes known as a Rule. This Government legislation site is still going through some teething problems. But you will be able to access all legislation and find specific Acts and Rules and individual sections.

Statutes
Statutory Regulations
Local & Private Acts

We also give you a direct link to the full Website of the Human Rights Commissioner :

 

.  .  .  Human Rights Commissioner

 

If you believe that you have been discriminated against in breach of the HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1993,  then you can complain to the Human Rights Commission. Discrimination is illegal only if :

1   It is on one of the illegal grounds set out in the Act, and

2.  The discrimination occurred in one of the areas of life  ( for example, employment )  that are covered by the Act

The anti-discrimination laws in the Human Rights Act 1993 have recently been amended:

The Race Relati-

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"I used to hear all sorts of stories about how some officers lie in the course of their work and thought it was probably rubbish. In most cases, officers work with integrity under difficult circumstances. However, I've just had first hand experience of an officer's lack of honesty in relation to a traffic offence. A kindergarten released private information about ourselves and our child to a policeman investigating an incident. They may have done so lawfully, thats a matter for someone else to decide. But then that policeman, on his official jobsheet, outrightly lied and said the information had come from another party (we have proved it did not).
The kindy refuses to tell us the basis on which they felt release of the info was warranted (i.e. the story the officer spun to them), or what information they gave to him. Since the jobsheet was falsified, we cant get it from there either, and we hardly trust Mr Plod to give us an accurate account now, can we?
Are they not obliged to tell to explain their handling of our private information, lawfully or otherwise?
Is there a provision or statute anywhere that allows officers to provide false statements on official documents to cover-up where they obtained information from?

Netlaw replies: We do know of a number of cases where police officers have lied and falsified evidence. We sincerely believe it is very rare in NZ. However, if you have clear evidence of this, not just a difference of opinion, then you must report it to the Police Complaints Authortity as well as the Commissioner of Police."

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