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		<title>Clearing up Confusion About Criminalising Cartels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proposed amendments to the Commerce Act are intended to assist businesses by deterring hard-core cartel conduct.  Such conduct raises prices above the competitive level and, in turn, affects the competitiveness of those selling into domestic and international markets. The amendments also clarify the law in relation to cartels to ensure that genuine, pro-competitive arrangements are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/commercial/clearing-up-confusion-about-criminalising-cartels/</link>
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		<title>Insolvent Transactions and Clawbacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Companies Act carries a sting in its tail Section 292 of the Companies Act 1993 gives liquidators the power to recover payments made by a troubled business in the two years prior to its liquidation, and at a time when it was unable to pay its debts. The purpose of s292 is to ensure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/commercial/insolvent-transactions-and-clawbacks/</link>
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		<title>Family Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Planning ahead for success Family businesses have long been part of New Zealand’s commercial landscape. It’s estimated that family businesses represent 75% of all businesses in New Zealand. However, despite their prevalence, many family businesses don’t survive beyond the second or third generation. This article gives some guidance to those who are either already involved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/commercial/family-businesses-2/</link>
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		<title>Amendment to legislation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s reassuring to know that sheep are no longer cattle following the recent amendments to the definition of cattle in the Biosecurity (National Bovine Tuberculosis Pest Management Strategy) Order 1998!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/rural/amendment-to-legislation/</link>
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		<title>Animal welfare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A corporate structure is no veil for liability. Every farmer, whether the owner or the person in charge of animals, has a statutory duty to ensure that the physical, health and behavioural needs of livestock are met in a manner that is in accordance with both: »Good practice, and » Scientific knowledge While it’s clear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/rural/animal-welfare/</link>
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		<title>Sharemilking Agreements – Variable Order</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Federated Farmers has now released an updated Variable Order Sharemilking Agreement. This follows the Sharemilking Agreements Order 2011. The new Agreement updates a number of clauses from the former Variable Order Sharemilking Agreement including (amongst other things): » Increasing the minimum percentage of income derived from milk supplied to 22% from 21% for those with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/rural/sharemilking-agreements-%e2%80%93-variable-order/</link>
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		<title>Public Holidays: Christmas 2011 and New Year 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall on a Sunday. This means that for employees who do not normally work on weekends the holiday is transferred to the following Monday or Tuesday so that your employee still gets a paid day off. For employees who normally work on that day the holiday remains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/commercial/public-holidays-christmas-2011-and-new-year-2012/</link>
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		<title>Protecting Yourself From Your Trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t just watch your garden grow While we have many protected trees in New Zealand, we also have laws that protect people or things against trees. Under those laws, you could potentially be held liable for something that your trees do. Learn how you may be able to protect yourself from your trees. Mischief makers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/property/protecting-yourself-from-your-trees/</link>
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		<title>Use of Your Property</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have the right to keep doing what you have always done? You most probably use your farm in a variety of ways, some of which would not always be expected with rural land, for example, a road-front retail shop for selling excess produce, your own airstrip for fertiliser application purposes, or a dirt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/property/use-of-your-property/</link>
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		<title>Unit Titles Act 2010: first important date 21 December 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first important date for bodies corporate is fast approaching.  The Unit Titles Act 2010 requires all bodies corporate to hold a general meeting before 21 December 2011. Its purpose is to appoint a chairperson and, where necessary, a committee all of whom must be appointed from owners in the unit title development. The chairperson’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.giffdev.co.nz/property/unit-titles-act-2010-first-important-date-21-december-2011/</link>
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