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[ • ]Government bill · 2024 · Enacted

Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Bill

Where it is in Parliament· last movement 2025-05-19

Introduction
First Reading
Select Committee
Second Reading
Committee of Whole House
Third Reading
Royal Assent
Enacted
What the official record says
This Act is the Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Act . This Act comes into force on the day after Royal assent. This Part amends the Crimes Act 1961. After section 2, insert: For the purposes of this Act only, this section sets out circumstances in which a person owes allegiance to the Sovereign in right of New Zealand. However,— this section is not an exhaustive code of the law relating to the circumstances in which a person owes allegiance to the Sovereign in right of New Zealand; and a person is not excluded from owing allegiance to the Sovereign in right of New Zealand under the common law just because they do not owe allegiance under this section. A person who is in New Zealand owes allegiance to the Sovereign in right of New Zealand unless 1 or more of the following

Laws this bill changes

  • Crimes Act 1961
Plain English breakdown

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