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NZLS Submissions
One of the New Zealand Law Society's most valued roles is to provide (through its Legislation Committee) an informed, reasoned and representative voice for lawyers and for the public on Bills as they are introduced to Parliament and considered by select committees.
This justification for this role is set out in Section 4 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982:
"(f) To assist in and promote the reform of the law."
NZLS committees often uncover aspects of the law needing reform. These are brought to the Government's attention and pursued until reform is achieved. The NZLS does not approach this role on the basis of personal views on the desirability of a particular measure, nor does it try to make political or value judgments. The object is to help provide better, more workable, more even-handed legislation.
It also provides comments on government agency discussion papers
Submissions on new legislation
Available to members only, on a confidential basis, on request by email
2002/2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008
Arms Amendment Bill (No 3) 2005
Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Bill
Disability (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) Bill
Commerce Amendment Bill
Financial Advisers Bill
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Bill
Gambling Amendment Bill (No 2)
Holidays (Transfer of Public Holidays) Amendment Bill
Marine Reserves Bill 2002
Public Health Bill
Public Transport Management Bill
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill (No 3)
Available generally
2002/2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008
Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Bill
Children, Young Persons, and their Families Amendment Bill (No 6)
Companies (Minority Buy-out Rights) Amendment Bill
Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Bill
Education (Establishment of Universities) Amendment Bill 2004
Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill
Electricity Industry Reform Amendment Bill
Family Courts Matters Bill
Immigration Bill
Lawyers and Conveyancers Amendment Bill (No. 2) - appendix I - appendix II - supplementary submission
Minimum Wage and Remuneration Amendment Bill
Oaths Modernisation Bill 2005
Overseas Investment (Queen's Chain Extension) Amendment Bill
Policing Bill
Real Estate Agents Bill
Regulatory Responsibility Bill - supplementary submission
Resource Management (Climate Protection) Amendment Bill
Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill
Trustee Amendment Bill
Walking Access Bill
Waste Minimisation (Solids) Bill
Submissions on Bills now enacted
2002/2003/2004/2005/2006/2008
Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Bill
Animal Products (Dairy Products and Other Matters) Bill 2004
Animal Products (Dairy Products and Other Matters) Bill 2004 (SOP)
Aquaculture Reform Bill 2004
Arbitration Amendment Bill
Armed Forces Law Reform Bill
Aviation Security Legislation Bill
Border Security Bill 2003 (Submission 1)
Border Security Bill 2003 (Submission 2)
Building Amendment Bill
Building Bill 2003
Business Law Reform 2003
Business Law Reform Bill
Care of Children Bill 2003
Children, Young Persons & Their Families Amendment Bill (No 4) 2004
Children, Young Persons & Their Families Amendment Bill (No 4) 2004 (SOP)
Child Support Amendment Bill (No 4) [Family Law Section submission]
Civil Union Bill 2004 (Family Law Section submission)
Climate Change Response Amendment Bill
Climate Change Response Bill 2002
Commissioner for Children Bill 2001
Communications Legislation Bill
Construction Contracts Bill 2001
Consumer Credit Bill 2002
Consumer Protection (Definition of Goods and Services) Bill 2001
Copyright (New Technologies and Performers' Rights) Amendment Bill
Coroners Bill 2004
Corrections Bill 2003
Counter-Terrorism Bill 2002
Courts & Criminal Matters 2003
Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill [Family Law Section submission]
Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) 2003 (NZLS submissions)
Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) 2003 (Women's Consultative Group submissions)
Crimes (Intimate Covert Filming) Amendment Bill
Criminal Investigation (Bodily Samples) Amendment Bill 2002
Criminal Justice Reform Bill
Criminal Procedure Bill 2004
Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Bill 2001 (without attachments)
Crown Minerals Amendment Bill 2001
Customs and Excise Amendment Bill (No 2)
Customs and Excise Amendment (No 4) Bill 2001
Education Amendment Bill 2004
Education (Tertiary Reforms) Amendment Bill
Electoral Finance Bill Oral submissions Case studies
Electronic Transactions Bill 2000
Employment Relations (Flexible Working Hours) Amendment Bill 2005 - Supplementary Order Paper No. 153
Employment Relations Law Reform Bill 2003
Energy Safety Review Bill 2005
Evidence Bill 2005 and appendix
Films, Videos and Publications Classification Amendment Bill 2003
Foreign Fishing Crews Wages & Repatriation Bond Bill 2000
Foreshore and Seabed Bill 2004
Forests Amendment 1999
Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Bill
Government Communications Security Bureau Bill 2001
Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Bill (No 2) 2002
Hazardous Substances & New Organisms (Transitional Provisions & Controls) Amendment Bill 2003
Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Bill 2001 (and supplementary submission)
Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Bill
Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Bill 2002
Health (Screening Programmes) Amendment Bill 2003
Holidays Amendment Bill 2004
Holidays Bill 2003
Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill 1996 & SOP 80
Human Tissue Bill
Identity (Citizenship & Travel Documents) Bill 2004
Immigration Advisers Licensing Bill 2005
Income Tax Bill
Income Tax Bill 2002
Independent Police Complaints Authority Amendment Bill 2002
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation & Compensation Amendment Bill (No 3) 2004
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Bill
Insolvency Law Reform Bill 2005 (Joint Insolvency Committee submission)
Judicature Amendment Bill (No 3) 2005
Judicial Matters Bill 2003 (word document version)
KiwiSaver Bill 2006
Land Transfer and Cadastral Survey Legislation Bill 2002
Land Transport Amendment Bill 2004
Land Transport (Street and Illegal Drag Racing) Amendment Bill 2002
Law Reform (Epidemic Preparedness) Bill
Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill 2003
Legal Services Amendment Bill (No 2) 2005
Limited Partnerships Bill
Local Government Bill 2001
Local Government Law Reform Bill (No 2) 1999 and SOP 79
Local Government Law Reform Bill 2006
Major Events Management Bill - Supplementary submission
Manukau City Council (Control of Graffiti) Bill
Maori Purposes Bill
Maritime Security Bill 2003
Mercenary Activities (Prohibition) Bill 2003
Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill (No 3) 2004
Motor Vehicle Sales Bill 2001
National Library of New Zealand Bill 2002
New Organisms & Others Matters 2003
New Zealand Superannuation Amendment Bill 2004
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Bill 2002
Overseas Investment Amendment Bill 2004 and appendix
Parole (Extended Supervision) & Sentencing Amendment Bill 2003
Pitcairn Trials Bill 2002
Police Complaints Authority (Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct) Amendment Bill 2004
Police Complaints Authority (Conditional Name Protection) Amendment Bill 2002
Prisoners' and Victims' Claims Bill 2004
Property Law Bill - further submission
Prostitution Reform Bill 2000
Protected Objects Amendment Bill 2005
Protection of Personal and Property Rights Amendment Bill
Public Records Bill 2004
Relationships (Statutory References) Bill 2004
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill 2002
Resource Management & Electricity Legislation Amendment Bill 2004
Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium) Amendment Bill 2001 (without appendices)
Resource Management (Aquaculture Moratorium Extension) Amendment Bill 2003
Resource Management (Energy and Climate Change) Amendment Bill 2003
Resource Management (Waitaki Catchment) Amendment Bill 2003
Responsible Gambling 2002
Retirement Villages Bill 2001 and supplementary paper.
Securities Legislation Bill 2004
Securities Markets and Institutions Bill 2001
Social Assistance (Debt Prevention and Minimisation) Amendment Bill
Social Security (Entitlement Cards) Amendment Bill
Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Bill 2003
Social Workers Registration Bill 2001
State Sector Amendment Bill 2001
State Sector Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2003
Status of Redundancy Payments 2002
Statutes Amendment (No 2) Bill 2001
Statutes Amendment Bill (No 4) 2003
Statutes Amendment Bill (No. 5) 2005 Part 19 (amending Receiverships Act 1993) - letter of substance
Student Loan Scheme Amendment Bill (No 2) plus final submission
Succession (Homicide) Bill
Summary Offences (Tagging and Graffiti Vandalism) Amendment Bill
Supreme Court Bill 2002
Taxation (Annual Rates, Business Taxation, KiwiSaver and Remedial Matters) Bill
Taxation (Annual Rates, GST, Trans-Tasman Imputation & Miscellaneous Provisions) 2003
Taxation (Annual Rates, Maori Organisations, Taxpayer Compliance and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2002
Taxation (Annual Rates, Savings Investment, and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill
Taxation (Annual Rates, Venture Capital and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2004
Taxation (Base Maintenance & Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2004 and supplementary submissions
Taxation (Depreciation, Payment Dates Alignment, Fbt, And Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005
Taxation (Relief, Refunds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2001
Telecommunications Amendment Bill
Terrorism (Bombings and Financing) Bill 2001
Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill
Trade Marks Bill 2001
Transnational Organised Crime Bill 2002
Trustee Companies Amendment Bill 2001 (does not include attachments)
Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill
Victims Rights Bill 1999
Visiting Forces Bill 2003
Volunteers Employment Protection Amendment Bill 2000/SOP No. 66
Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill 2006
Weathertight Homes Resolution Services (Remedies) Amendment Bill
Weathertight Homes Resolution Service Amendment Bill
Wills Bill plus supplementary submission
Wine Bill 2002
To find out what submissions have been called for and how to make a submission - http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/SC/SubmCalled/
Submissions on Bills now discharged or negatived
2005/2006/2007/2008
Crimes (Drug Rape) Amendment Bill 2003
Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill
Human Tissue (Organ Donation) Amendment Bill (negatived)
Manukau City Council (Control of Street Prostitution) Bill (negatived)
Members of Parliament (Pecuniary Interests) Bill 2003
New Zealand Bill of Rights (Private Property Rights) Amendment Bill 2005 (negatived)
Residential Tenancies (Damage Insurance) Amendment Bill
Sex Offenders Registry Bill 2003
Treaty of Waitangi (Removal of Conflict of Interest) Amendment Bill (negatived)
Young Offenders (Serious Crimes) Bill (negatived)
Select Committee Inquiries
Inquiry into the Ongoing Requirement for Individual Regulations and their Impact (This submission is confidential to members only, who can request it by email)
Law Commission Projects
Tribunals in New Zealand - submission by Civil Litigation and Tribunals Committee 31.3.08
Public Inquiries - Law Commission's draft report 19.02.08
Government Agency Discussion Papers
Access to justice (including legal aid)
Family Law Section: Comments on Global Granting and Pro Forma Invoicing 19.12.05
NZLS makes case for legal aid rate increase - December 2005
Women's Consultative Group: Comments on the Draft NGO Report on CEDAW - NCW 8.12.05
Family Law Section: Submissions in Support of Remuneration Rates Review 16.11.05
Review of Remuneration Rates for Youth Advocates 11.11.05
Care of Children Act 2004 - Changes to Agency Steps 18.4.05
Delivering Justice for All - A Vision for New Zealand Courts and Tribunals - Law Commission 6.9.04
Accident compensation and medical and biological issues
Cost of Treatment Regulations (Adjustment to Rates) - ACC 29.6.05
Commercial law (including Insolvency and Intellectual Property)
Draft Technical Amendments to the Takeovers Code- MED 1.12.05
NZX Conduct Rule Review - Consultation Paper - NZX/NZDX & NZAC Listing Rules 10.11.05
Comments on Draft Plant Variety Rights Bill 1987 - MED 11.10.05
Review of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Govt of NZ and the Govt of Australia on coordination of business law - MED 7.9.05
Options for Change - Task Force on Regulation of Financial Intermediaries 20.6.05
Ministry of Consumer Affairs - Information Sharing by the Commerce Commission in relation to the Fair Trading Act 1986 1.6.05
Proposed Class Exemption for Share and Unit Purchase Plans - Securities Commission 18.5.05
Draft Hague Convention on Exclusinve Choice of Court Agreements - Ministry of Justice 29.4.05
Draft Patents Bill - MED 14.3.05
Comments on the Review of the Financial Reporting Act 1993 Part II - MED 3.3.05
Proposed Amendments to the Takeovers Code - Takeovers Panel 2.3.05
Initial Issues Paper - Task Force on Regulation of Financial Intermediaries 24.2.05
Outsourcing Policy for Systemically Important Banks - Reserve Bank of New Zealand 7.2.05
Contract and Consumer Law
Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003/Consumer Information Standards (Used Motor Vehicles) Regulations 2003 Discussion Papers 1.6.07
Enforcement of Consumer Protection Law Review 7.7.06
Review of the Consumer Information Standards (Used Motor Vehicles) Regulations 2003 12.6.06
Independent Review of the Banking Ombudsmen Scheme 11.10.05
Review of the Code of Banking Practice 28.9.05
Review of the Operation of the Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003 16.5.05
Civil Litigation
Revision of District Court Rules 2007 29.10.07
Draft High Court Rules 2.7.07
Role of Public Inquiries 2.3.07
Recovery of Costs in High Court 1.3.07
Costs in the Court of Appeal 1.3.07
MED Review of Financial Products and Providers: Consumer Dispute Resolution and Redress 13.12.06
Civil Court fees regulations 27.11.06
Disputes Tribunals: A qualified support for increase in jurisdiction 26.10.06
Ministry of Justice papers on civil court fees 27.9.06
Arbitral Appeal Confidentiality - 27.7.06
Costs on Multiple Issues and Appeals against an Interlocutory Order or Decision from the High Court 26.6.06
Law Commission Draft Report Consultation Paper: Access to Court records - 10.5.06
Reform of the District Court Rules 7.2.06
Annual Review of Schedule of Costs for the High Court 23.11.05
Trans-Tasman Court Proceedings and Regulatory Enforcement - Ministry of Justice 4.11.05
Draft Hague Convention on Exclusive Choice of Court Agreements - Ministry of Justice 29.4.05
High Court Amendment Rules 2005 Consultation Paper - Rules Committee 27.4.05
Criminal and Youth Justice
Voluntary fingerprinting 17.5.05
Youth Justice capability review - Service Process Model 14.4.05
Electronic Commerce
nz Domain Name Dispute Resolution 23.12.05
InternetNZ - Consultation on establishing dispute resolution process for .nz domain name space - Office of the Domain Name Commissioner 28.2.05
Employment law
Draft amendments to the Code of Good Faith - Department of Labour 31.3.05
Environment law
Proposed NES for Human Drinking Water Sources - Ministry for the Environment 6.12.05
Freshwater for a Sustainable Future: Issues and Options - Ministry for the Environment 4.4.05
Family law
A Review of the Domestic Violence Act 1995 and Related Legislation 02.02.08
Comments on the discussion paper Trans-Tasman Court Proceedings and Regulatory Enforcement 4.11.05
For more information on the work of the Family Law Section see www.familylawyers.org.nz
Human Rights
Intellectual Property
Experimental Use Exception for New Zealand's Patent Legislation 7.4.06
Property law
Review of the Code of Banking Practice 28.9.05
Retirement Villages Act draft Code of Practice 17.5.05
Review of the Unit Titles Act 1972 24.3.05
Getting the Balance Right: RTA Review - Department of Building and Housing 18.2.05
For more information on the work of the Property Law Section see www.propertylawyers.org.nz
Tax law
New Australia-NZ Double Tax Agreement - 20.3.08
Disputes resolution process commenced by the CIR - 8.4.08
Disputes resolution process commenced by a taxpayer - 16.5.08
Standard Practice Statement on Voluntary Disclosure - 30.5.08
Draft legislation for Stapled Stock Amendment to Income Tax Act 2007 - 30.5.08
Reforming the Definitions of Associated Persons - 7.6.07
Directions to be exercised by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue under Kiwi Saver Act 2006 - 16.5.07
NZ's International Tax Review: A direction for change - 16.3.07
New Employee Relocation Expenses - 26.2.07
Requests to Amend Assessments - 12.2.07
XPB00012commentary - Commentary on Public Rulings BR Pub 06/xa — BR Pub 06/xe 15.11.06
Tax Consequences of Adopting International Financial Reporting Standards 26.10.06
Business Tax Review 11.9.06
General and Limited Partnerships: Proposed Tax changes 28.8.06
Care and Management of Taxes 23.5.06
Exposure Draft 0081: Writing off Tax Debt 18.1.06
Exposure Draft of Rewritten Part G of the Income Tax Act 2004 - IRD 7.11.05
Timing of Recognition of Loss and Profits Insurance Proceeds - IRD 17.8.05
Exposure Draft ISO092: Agreement for Sale and Purchase of Land - IRD 4.7.05
Comments on IRD Exposure Draft of Rewritten Part H of the Income Tax Act 2005 19.5.05
Taxation of Securities Lending Transactions: substance over form - IRD 1.4.05
IRD - Taxing Securities Lending Transactions: substance over form 3.2.05
INA0009: Interpretation of Sections BG1 and GB1 of the Income Tax Act 2004 20.1.05
Tax and privilege: a proposed new structure 10.9.02
last modified 25 July 2008
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