NZQA registered unit standard
26931 version 1
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Title
Manage responsibilities to victims in a compliance investigations
context
Level
5
Credits
5
Purpose
This unit standard is intended for people who work in
compliance roles in public sector organisations. People
credited with this unit standard are able to: demonstrate
knowledge of the Victims’ Rights Act 2002 in a compliance
investigations context; demonstrate knowledge of the potential
impacts of offending on victims, and compliance investigator
attitudes and behaviour in relation to this; interact with victims
as a compliance investigator; and produce a victim impact
statement.
Classification
Public Sector Compliance > Public Sector Compliance
Investigations
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Legislation applicable to this unit standard may include but is not limited to:
Criminal Disclosure Act 2008;
Evidence Act 2006;
Victims’ Rights Act 2002;
Privacy Act 1993;
New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990;
Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989;
Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987;
Official Information Act 1982;
Summary Proceedings Act 1957; and
specific legislation mandating the powers and duties of a specific organisation with
respect to its compliance role and/or any other legislation applicable to a particular
compliance situation (e.g. Fisheries Act 1996, Resource Management Act 1991).
Legislation includes any applicable subordinate legislation such as regulations,
bylaws, and licence conditions. Any legislation superseding any of the above will
apply for the purpose of assessment.
2
Demonstration of knowledge and skills must be consistent with any applicable code
or codes of conduct such as the New Zealand State Services Code of Conduct,
Standards of Integrity and Conduct (available from http://www.ssc.govt.nz) and/or
any other organisation specific code or codes of conduct.
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NZQA registered unit standard
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Definitions
Compliance (role of) refers to the role, in a public sector organisation, of assessing
compliance subjects’ levels of adherence with regulatory requirements and carrying
out any appropriate intervention.
Compliance investigation refers to the process of gathering and assessing
information to determine facts and, thereby, to determine degree of compliance or
otherwise.
Compliance subject refers to a natural person or an entity that is subject, in a
particular compliance context, to being regulated.
Organisation refers to a public sector organisation, as listed in the Public Sector
Directory at http://psd.govt.nz/list/index.php.
Organisational requirements refer to instructions to staff on policies, procedures, and
methodologies which are documented and are available in the workplace.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate knowledge of the Victims’ Rights Act 2002 in a compliance investigations
context.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Definitions of ‘victim’ and ‘immediate family’ are consistent with the Victims’
Rights Act 2002.
1.2
Explanation of obligations towards victims in a compliance investigations
context is consistent with the Victims’ Rights Act 2002.
Range
includes but is not limited to – principles guiding treatment of
victims, information to be given to victims, privacy of victims, victim
impact statements, disclosure, recording contact with victims.
Outcome 2
Demonstrate knowledge of the potential impacts of offending on victims, and compliance
investigator attitudes and behaviour in relation to this.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Impacts are described in terms of physical and emotional short-term and longterm effects.
2.2
Description of compliance investigator attitudes and behaviour in relation to the
potential impacts of offending on victims is consistent with respecting victims’
emotional and physical states.
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SSB Code 100401
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NZQA registered unit standard
26931 version 1
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Outcome 3
Interact with victims as a compliance investigator.
Evidence requirements
3.1
All interaction is conducted in a timely and sensitive manner and in accordance
with organisational requirements.
3.2
All interaction is conducted in accordance with the Victims’ Rights Act 2002.
3.3
All interaction is recorded in accordance with the Victims’ Rights Act 2002.
Outcome 4
Produce a victim impact statement.
Range
actual or simulated.
Evidence requirements
4.1
Victim impact statement is produced in accordance with the Victims’ Rights Act
2002 and organisational requirements.
victim impact statement addresses – any physical injury and/or
emotional harm, any loss of and/or damage to property, any other
adverse effects of the offending on the victim.
Range
Planned review date
31 December 2015
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
15 April 2011
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0121
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
The Skills Organisation
SSB Code 100401
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
26931 version 1
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Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact The Skills Organisation info@skills.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes
to the content of this unit standard.
The Skills Organisation
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 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016