Section 160 — Employment Relations Act 2000: Powers of Authority

160 Powers of Authority (1) The Authority may, in investigating any matter,— (a) call for evidence and information from the parties or from any other person: (b) require the parties or any other person to attend an investigation meeting to give evidence: (c) interview any of the parties or any person at any time before, during, or after an investigation meeting: (d) in the course of an investigation meeting, fully examine any witness: (e) decide that an investigation meeting should not be in public or should not be open to certain persons: (f) follow whatever procedure the Authority considers appropriate. (2) The Authority may take into account such evidence and information as in equity and good conscience it thinks fit, whether strictly legal evidence or not. (3) The Authority is not bound to treat a matter as being a matter of the type described by the parties, and may, in investigating the matter, concentrate on resolving the employment relationship problem, however described. Subsection (1)(c) was amended, as from 1 December 2004, by section 54 Employment Relations Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 86) by inserting the words “ , during, or after ” after the words “ any time before ” . See section 73 of that Act for the transitional provisions.