Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C01237:clause:1_26
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004C01237
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Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 26
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26  Approval and publication of standard or variation

 (1) After considering a draft standard, or a draft variation of a standard, prepared under section 25, the Authority must:
 (a) approve the draft; or
 (b) approve the draft subject to such amendments as the Authority considers necessary; or
 (c) abandon the draft.

Note: The Board must not delegate its powers to act on behalf of the Authority under this subsection—see section 67.

 (2) If interested persons and/or appropriate government agencies have made written submissions about the draft in accordance with the notice under paragraph 25(3)(b), the Authority must have due regard to those submissions in considering the draft.

 (3) To avoid doubt, the draft does not take effect except in accordance with a notice under subsection (4).

Publication

 (4) If the Authority approves a draft standard or variation under this section (with or without amendments), the Authority must:
 (a) prepare a notice stating that the draft or the draft as so amended is to come into effect on a date specified in the notice; and
 (b) cause a copy of the notice to be published in the Gazette and in the New Zealand Gazette and in a newspaper circulating in each State or Territory and in New Zealand, together with information about where a copy of the draft or draft as amended may be obtained or inspected; and
 (c) make a copy of:
 (i) the notice; and
 (ii) the text of the draft or the draft as so amended;
  available for inspection by the public; and
 (d) publish on the Internet a copy of:
 (i) the notice; and
 (ii) the text of the draft or the draft as so amended.

Draft as so amended

 (5) To avoid doubt, a reference in subsection (4) to a draft as so amended does not imply that a reference in another provision of this Act to a draft does not include a reference to an amended draft.