BORA Minimum Wage and Remuneration Amendment Bill [pdf, 280 KB]
...reference to the age of the person performing the services. We are of the view that this provision does not authorise the Governor-General to make orders that discriminate on the ground of age in a way that is prohibited by the Bill of Rights Act or the Human Rights Act 1993. 6. Section 6 of the Bill of Rights Act requires that wherever an enactment can be given a meaning that is consistent with the rights and freedoms contained in the Bill of Rights Act, that meaning must be preferred t...