An Act to establish procedures that have as their purposes the
   achievement of employment equity, and, in particular,---
   (a) The identification of those areas of paid employment in which---
           (i) Inequality of opportunity for designated groups exists; or
           (ii) Inequality of remuneration for women exists:
   (b) The promotion of equal employment opportunities through the use of
         equal employment opportunities programmes and the elimination of
         inequality of opportunity for designated groups from all forms
         of paid employment in the public and private sectors:
   (c) The redress of the inequitable impact on women of any current or
         historical discrimination against women in respect of their
         remuneration

 BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows: