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NZL-2020-L-110161
Breadcrumb
Title_of_text
Education and Training Act 2020 (2020 No 38).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
New Zealand
Subjects (Classification)
Education, vocational guidance and training
Adopted on (Date of text)
2020-07-31
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
The Act repeals and replaces all major existing education and training legislation. It is intended to be simpler, more user-friendly and less prescriptive than the previous legislative framework.
The Education and Training Act 2020:
- introduces a new structure that follows the journey of students through education, starting with early learning, moving to schooling and then tertiary and vocational training,
- moves some prescriptive detail directly into regulations (so these provisions will not be found in the Act),
- moves other detailed provisions into Schedules at the end of the Act, with “sunset clauses”, meaning that they will expire after a set period of time and new regulations will need to be developed to replace them, and
- retains large parts of the existing education legislation, which were transferred into the Act unchanged. We took the opportunity to update some of the language throughout the Act, where we could do so without changing the effect of the law itself.
Entry dates region
Date of entry into force
2020-08-01
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Amended Text region
Amended text(s)
1988-03-30 (NZL-1988-L-6304)
State Sector Act 1988 (1988, No. 20).
Repealed Text region
Repealed text(s)
1964-12-04 (NZL-1964-L-72590)
Education Act 1964 (No. 135).
Repealed text(s)
1989-09-29 (NZL-1989-L-72591)
Education Act 1989 (No. 80).
Repealed text(s)
2001-10-24 (NZL-2001-L-72592)
Education Standards Act 2001 (No. 88).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line
Author
New Zealand Legislation
URL
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2020/0038/latest/whole.html?search=y_act_2020__ac%40ainf%40anif_an%40bn%40rn_25_a&p=1#LMS172572
File
NZL110161.pdf (PDF)