12 DECEMBER

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Evaluation and review:

The adequacy and effectiveness of the provision for evaluation and review of courses; for monitoring the on-going relevance of learning outcomes, course standards and quality; and for reviewing course regulations and content.

Category (c)—All applications in respect of accreditation only, where the course has already received approval under (a) or (b) above:

Acceptability of the course:

The acceptability of the proposed course to the relevant academic, industrial, professional and other communities in terms of its stated aims and learning outcomes, nomenclature, content and structure.

Delivery and learning methods:

The adequacy and appropriateness of delivery and learning methods, for all modes of delivery, given the stated learning outcomes.

Assessment:

The adequacy of the means of ensuring that assessment procedures are fair, valid, consistent and appropriate, given the stated learning outcomes.

Resources:

The capacity of the organisation to support sustained delivery of the course, in all delivery modes, with regard to appropriate academic staffing, teaching facilities, physical resources and support services.

Evaluation and review:

The adequacy and effectiveness of the provision for the evaluation and review of course delivery against defined course standards and regulations; for monitoring improvement following evaluation and review; and for determining whether a course shall continue to be delivered.

Special requirements

Degrees and related qualifications:

The adequacy of provision of research facilities and support of staff involved in research, the levels of research activity of staff involved in the course and of ways by which the research-teaching links are made in the curriculum.

These criteria will be effective from 1 August 2003.

FRANK WOOD, Board Chairperson, New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

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Transit New Zealand

Transit New Zealand Act 1989

Declaring State Highway to be Limited Access Road: State Highway No. 35, Gisborne

It is notified that Transit New Zealand, by resolution dated 4 December 2002 and pursuant to section 88 (1) of the Transit New Zealand Act 1989, hereby declares that part of State Highway No. 35 described in the Schedule hereto and as more particularly shown on Plan LA31/73/1 and accompanying Schedules held in the office of the Regional Manager, Transit New Zealand, Napier, and there available for public inspection, to be limited access road.

Schedule

That section of State Highway No. 35 in Gisborne district, commencing at the Pouawa River Bridge and generally proceeding in a south-westerly direction to:

(a) On the western side of the highway, the southern boundary of the intersection with Sirrah Street; and

(b) On the eastern side of the highway, the southern abutment of the Hamanatua Bridge

(Route position 308/0.00 to Route Position 308/11.30 on the western side and 321/0.05 on the eastern side); distances of 11.30 kilometres and 13.05 kilometres respectively.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of December 2002.

Signed on behalf of Transit New Zealand by:

M. K. LAUDER, State Highway Control Manager.

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Bylaw Regulating Heavy Motor Vehicle Traffic on State Highways

Pursuant to section 61 (3) of the Transit New Zealand Act 1989, Transit New Zealand hereby makes the following bylaw.

Bylaw

1. Title and commencement—This bylaw may be cited as Transit New Zealand Bylaw (Heavy Motor Vehicles on State Highways) 2002/17 and shall come into force 28 days after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. Interpretation—In this bylaw, “heavy motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle (other than a motorcar that is not used, kept or available for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward) the gross laden weight of which exceeds 4500 kilograms; but does not include a vehicle designed solely or principally for the use of fire brigades in attendance at fires.

3. The driving or taking of any heavy motor vehicle or combination of heavy motor vehicles on to or over the sections of State highway described in the First Schedule to this bylaw while there is another heavy motor vehicle or combination of heavy motor vehicles on that section of State highway is prohibited.

4. No person shall take or permit to be driven or taken, any heavy motor vehicle on:

   (a) any road, or any part of a road, specified in the Second Schedule to this bylaw; or

   (b) any road or part of a road specified in the Third Schedule to this bylaw between the hours of 7.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m., unless that vehicle is used for the express purpose of:

    (i) providing an emergency service on a road, or part of a road, specified in the Second and Third Schedules, or in the immediate vicinity of that road or part of that road; or
   
    (ii) the provision or maintenance of a network utility work on or in a road or part of a road, specified in the Second and Third Schedules, or in the immediate vicinity of that road, or part