Section 31 — Employment Relations Act 2000: Object of this Part

31 Object of this Part The object of this Part is— (a) to provide the core requirements of the duty of good faith in relation to collective bargaining; and (aa) to provide that the duty of good faith in section 4 requires parties bargaining for a collective agreement to conclude a collective agreement unless there is a genuine reason, based on reasonable grounds, not to; and (b) to provide for 1 or more codes of good faith to assist the parties to understand what good faith means in collective bargaining; and (c) to recognise the view of parties to collective bargaining as to what constitutes good faith; and (d) to promote orderly collective bargaining; and (e) to ensure that employees confirm proposed collective bargaining for a multi-party collective agreement. Paragraph (aa) was inserted, as from 1 December 2004, by section 10 Employment Relations Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 86). See section 73 of that Act for the transitional provisions.