Reference documents

New Zealand and International Standards

Where New Zealand and International Standards are referenced in this document the application of the Standard shall be, unless specifically stated to the contrary, the latest edition and amendments available on the date 30 calendar days prior to the issue of any request for a quote, tender or proposal.

Where specifications or standards or any other references referred to in this document refer in turn to other specifications, standards or documents whether whole or in part, those consequential references shall apply to this specification as if they were completely contained in their entirety in the original reference.

Objectionable and/or Harmful Information

New Zealand’s censorship regime is governed by the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993, as amended by the Films, Videos and Publications Classification Amendment Acts 1997, 1998, 1999, 2005, and 2007. The Department of Internal Affairs is responsible for making sure that New Zealand’s censorship legislation is enforced, and thereby helps to protect people from material that is injurious to the public good.

The Act makes it an offence to possess or trade in “objectionable” publications.

The Act defines a publication as objectionable if “it describes, depicts, expresses, or otherwise deals with matters such as sex, horror, crime, cruelty, or violence in such a manner that the availability of the publication is likely to be injurious to the public good.” The Act makes specific references to images of children who are nude or partially nude, and the exploitation of children for sexual purposes. In this regard, ECE educators have a dual responsibility:

• to protect children from exposure to material that, while not necessarily objectionable under the Act, may be inappropriate or harmful to a child
• to protect children from exploitation.

Regulatory Requirements and Codes of Practice

The work covered by this document shall comply with all statutory and other requirements including the Electricity Regulations 1997, the New Zealand Electrical Codes of Practice and all relevant New Zealand and other national and international standards declared as suitable for the purposes of the Wiring Regulations by the Secretary of Energy.

All electrical work shall comply with the New Zealand Electrical Codes of Practice and AS/NZS3000.

Application of the Standards

Security systems and procedures should be selected and implemented in accordance with the Ministry standards by including a reference to those standards in tenders and contract documents.

In the event of conflict between Ministry standards or specifications and other regulations, codes or standards the order of precedence shall be:

1. Statutory Codes and Regulations
2. This document
3. Referenced New Zealand and International Standards

Conflicts in requirements that are identified by ECE Services, Consultants, Tenderers or Contractors should be notified to ECE.Info@minedu.govt.nz.

Computer Operating Systems

This document assumes the use of either Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 or later versions, or Apple Macintosh OS X 10.3 or later versions in computers used in ECE Services.

Windows XP Home Edition has Simple File Sharing always enabled by default and does not support the Shared Documents feature which provides optional security levels for sharing files with other users of a computer or with other users on a network.