AHI Operations Ltd v Department of Labour - [1986] 1 NZLR 645

Criminal law — Mens rea — Statutory offences — Failure to securely fence dangerous machinery — Employee disobeyed instructions and disconnected the mechanism for guarding the machine — Whether employer liable for failing to securely fence the machine — Whether failing to securely fence machinery was an offence of absolute liability — Machinery Act 1950, ss 17(1) and 27.