Pursuant to section 21 of the Health and Safety in Employment (Adventure Activities) Regulations 2011 (“Regulations”), I, Gordon MacDonald, grant to Sacred Rides New Zealand Limited an exemption from the requirement under section 7(1)(a) of the Regulations (that an adventure activity operator must not provide an adventure activity to a participant unless, when the activity is provided, the operator is registered to provide it).

This exemption applies on and from 18 February 2016 until 5.00pm on 14 April 2016, unless cancelled earlier under section 21(5) of the Regulations.

The effect of the exemption is that the exempt adventure activity operator may provide adventure activities to participants without being registered to provide them under the Regulations.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of February 2016.

GORDON MACDONALD, Chief Executive, WorkSafe New Zealand.