Education Standards Act 2001 088
Commenced: 25 October 2001
10A: New Zealand Teachers Council
39 New sections 144B to 144E inserted

Regulating school hostels

" 144C Regulations about school hostels

" (a) adopting minimum standards that apply to hostel premises and
facilities, whether the regulations set out the standards themselves or adopt standards contained in other documents:

"(c) prescribing offences for failing to comply with minimum standards or codes of practice adopted by regulations, and providing for a penalty on summary conviction for any such offence to be a fine not exceeding $10,000:

"(v) prohibiting students from boarding at an unlicensed hostel:

"(vii) prescribing offences for failure to comply with all or any licence conditions, and providing for a penalty on summary conviction for any such offence to be a fine not exceeding $10,000:

" (f) establishing a complaints procedure relating to complaints by
students, parents, or Boards, about hostels:

"144D Inspection of hostels

"(a) enter any hostel premises and inspect the premises and facilities:

"(b) inspect, and make and remove copies of, any information relating to the management of the hostel:

"(3) The person in charge (or apparent charge) of the hostel must, if an authorised person requests it, co-operate in allowing the authorised person access to the premises, facilities, and information relating to the management of the hostel, including assisting the authorised person to copy (in usable form) any information required for the inspection.

"(4) The person in charge (or apparent charge) of a hostel commits an offence and is liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 if he or she fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with subsection (3).