New Zealand draft standards

This project is part of the Trans-Tasman Standards Alignment Programme, endorsed by the Minister of Small Business and Consumer Affairs in August 2024. The programme aims to align New Zealand practices with both international and trans-Tasman best practice, through committees of subject matter experts who assess the standards’ suitability for use here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A committee of New Zealand subject matter experts has assessed the following Australian standards and considers them appropriate for rejoining and for use in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Consumer Protection standards public consultation
We are seeking industry views about rejoining a suite of dejointed Australian consumer protection standards. These include standards covering the management of electrical and electronic equipment for re-use or recycling, sun protection clothing, shower toilet chairs and tampons.

This project is part of the Trans-Tasman Standards Alignment Programme, endorsed by the Minister of Small Business and Consumer Affairs in August 2024. The programme aims to align New Zealand practices with both international and trans-Tasman best practice, through committees of subject matter experts who assess the standards’ suitability for use here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A committee of New Zealand subject matter experts has assessed the following Australian standards and considers them appropriate for rejoining and for use in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Aotearoa New Zealand is taking a major step forward in digital governance by considering the identical adoption of 47 international standards as New Zealand Standards. These standards define best practice in the use and management of AI systems, and also in the areas of cyber security, biometrics, cloud computing, and risk management.
These standards have already been identically adopted in Australia, and a committee of New Zealand subject matter experts has agreed to initiate public consultation to ensure that New Zealanders have the chance to feedback and/or identify any issues with identically adopting the standards.
This project is part of the Trans-Tasman Standards Alignment Programme, endorsed by the Minister of Small Business and Consumer Affairs in August 2024. The programme aims to align New Zealand practices with both international and trans-Tasman best practice, through committees of subject matter experts who assess the standards’ suitability for use here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The suitability of identically adopting these standards was considered by a committee of 25 subject matter experts from 15 different organisations representing the public sector, private organisations, academia, and industry organisations all with a focus on evolving technologies.

These standards form part of a trans-Tasman standards realignment programme, endorsed by the Minister of Small Business and Consumer Affairs in August 2024. The programme aims to align New Zealand practices with both international and trans-Tasman best practice, through committees of subject matter experts who assess the standards’ suitability for use here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A committee of New Zealand subject matter experts has assessed the following Australian standards and considers them appropriate for rejoining and for use in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This project is part of the Trans-Tasman Standards Alignment Programme, endorsed by the Minister of Small Business and Consumer Affairs in August 2024. The programme aims to align New Zealand practices with both international and trans-Tasman best practice, through committees of subject matter experts who assess the standards’ suitability for use here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A committee of New Zealand subject matter experts has assessed the following Australian standards and considers them appropriate for rejoining and for use in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This project is part of the Trans-Tasman Standards Alignment Programme, endorsed by the Minister of Small Business and Consumer Affairs in August 2024. The programme aims to align New Zealand practices with both international and trans-Tasman best practice, through committees of subject matter experts who assess the standards’ suitability for use here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A committee of New Zealand subject matter experts has assessed the following Australian standards and considers them appropriate for rejoining and for use in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This Australian standard outlines the specifications for wall ties used in masonry construction.

The standard defines requirements for wall ties that connect:
- the leaves of cavity masonry walls,
- masonry veneer walls to loadbearing frames,
- masonry veneer walls to strong backing walls.
The standard applies to wall ties used in various types of masonry, including autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) blockwork, as described in AS 3700, AS 4773.1, and AS 4773.2, including those used in thin-jointed masonry.

Key features:
- AS 2699.1 provides categories of wall ties and classifies them by mean strength and durability,
- Durability classifications in AS 2699.1 are compatible with the environments specified in ISO 9223, AS 4312 – 2008, AS 3700, AS 4773.1 and AS 4773.2,
- The standard excludes type B wall ties which are covered in AS/NZS 2699.1:2000 which provides definitions, embedment, movement and tolerance requirements, marking and methods of testing for that type of ties.

AS 3499:2022 Water supply – Flexible hose assemblies

The 2006 version of this standard was a joint standard AS/NZS 3499:2006. Due to a lack of funding support from the New Zealand industry and regulator, the standard got de-jointed and published as Australian-only, AS 3499:2022. To prevent misalignment with Australia, it is now proposed to identically re-joint AS 3499:2022 and publish it as AS/NZS 3499:2022.
The objective of this document is to specify requirements for flexible hose assemblies for use with both heated water and cold water supplies with a maximum heated water temperature of 90℃ used for applications above ground and accessible. Nominal sizes range up to DN 50, a maximum length of 10m and with an allowable operating pressure of 1400 kPa for sizes up to and including DN 25 and progressively lower pressures for increasingly lager diameters.

Performance tests are based in part on EN 13618.

The review and adoption (by modification) of a suite of eleven international hydrogen related equipment standards by Standards New Zealand Committee P3652, serves to ensure we have in place standards that are fit-for-purpose for the safe reticulation, mobility and distribution of hydrogen from its point of production to bulk storage hubs.

Additionally, this project serves to extend New Zealand’s capability of producing hydrogen onsite and storing it, for the purposes of refuelling transport and as an industrial feedstock.

The adoption of these standards completes the suite of international hydrogen standards, necessary to underpin the equipment supply-chain. This provides greater industry certainty and investment confidence, that New Zealand has the necessary safety standards to support the rollout of hydrogen energy infrastructure across the motu.

The international standards for modified adoption in New Zealand are:

Standards that underpin production:
• ISO 16110-1:2007 Hydrogen generators using fuel processing technologies – Part 1: Safety
• ISO 16110-2:2010 Hydrogen generators using fuel processing technologies – Part 2: Test methods for performance
• ISO 22734:2019 Hydrogen generators using water electrolysis – Industrial, commercial, and residential applications. Expected to be replaced by ISO/DIS 22734-1 within the coming months.
• ISO TS 19883:2017 Safety of pressure swing adsorption systems for hydrogen separation and purification
Standards that underpin H2 refuelling stations and critical safety requirements:
• ISO 19880-1:2020 Gaseous hydrogen – Fuelling stations – Part 1: General requirements.
• ISO 19880-2 : 2025 Gaseous hydrogen – Fuelling stations – Part 2: Dispensers and dispensing systems.
• IEC 62282-2-100:2020 Fuel cell technologies – Part 2-100: Fuel cell modules – Safety
• IEC 62282-3-100:2019 Fuel cell technologies – Part 3-100: Stationary fuel cell power systems – Safety
• IEC 62282-3-200:2015 Fuel cell technologies – Part 3-200: Stationary fuel cell power systems – Performance test methods
• IEC 62282-3-201:2017 Fuel cell technologies – Part 3-201: Stationary fuel cell power systems – Performance test methods for small fuel cell power systems, incorporating Amendment 1
• IEC 62282-3-300:2012 Fuel cell technologies – Part 3-300: Stationary fuel cell power systems – Installation.