Your Business and the Law

What laws apply?

Your Lawlink lawyer will be able to advise you about the specific legal requirements that apply to your business.

Contents

• Your Business and the Law
• Setting up your business
• Employing staff
• Employment Relations 2000
• Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
• Other important legislation for employers
• Dealing with your customers
• Consumer Guarantees Act 1993
• Fair Trading Act 1986
• Privacy Act 1993
• Personal Property Securities Act 1999
• Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003
• Insolvent transactions under the Companies Act 1993

• Dealing with your competitors
• Commerce Act 1986
• Dealing with land
• Resource Management Act 1991
• Building Act 2004
• Property Law Act 2007
• Dealing with the wider community
• Income Tax Act 2007
• Human Rights Act 1993
• Financial Transactions Reporting Act 1996 and Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009
• Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996
• Where to from here?