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Amend the 2004 Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act to slate all convictions off your record when they have occurred more than say, 10 years ago for serious offences, perhaps less for lesser...
Original discussion: here, here and here.
Sparked by Su'a William Sio's desire to swear his Oath of Allegiance as an MP in Samoan. The Oaths and Declarations Act 1957 allows oaths to be sworn in...
Currently, we have mandatory 4 weeks leave and 11 public holidays. Employers are, however, able to impose closedown or no-leave periods of their choosing. This is inconvenient and unfair on those...
Currently election broadcasting funds are allocated in an unfair manner which favours larger parties over smaller ones. This may create self-fulfilling prophecies of success and failure. A fairer...
Belgium has apparently banned the use, sale, manufacture, testing and transit of Uranium in all conventional munitions and armour.
We should do it too.
The legislation could be easily adapted from...
Australia is currently debating the future of "jumps racing" - the horseback equivalent of the hurdles, already banned in most states on animal welfare grounds - after a spate of nasty accidents in...
Last year, Trade Aid ran a camapign to petition Parliament to ban the importation of goods produced with slave labour. The petition attracted 17,000 signatures. The Foreign Affairs, Defence &...
A list of bills by topic area.
Constitution
Broadcasting (Electoral Allocations) Amendment Bill
Constitution (Election Of Governor General) Amendment Bill
Constitution (Removal Of Royal Assent)...
Blasphemous Libel is an archaic crime which outlaws publishing material which speaks of the Christian god "irreverently" or "impiously". Its an archaic law which contravenes the Bill Of Rights...
Project discussion: Amend election broadcasting allocations
Broadcasting (Electoral Allocations) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory note
This bill amends the Broadcasting Act 1989 to...
Project discussion: Repeal of broadcast advertising restrictions
Broadcasting (Repeal of Advertising Restrictions) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory note
This bill amends the Broadcasting...
This is an idea that extends the non-human hominid special treatment in the Animal Welfare Act. New Zealand led the world in offering a small slither of protection to non-human hominids in animal...
An example here
For further discussion on current conventions, see the relevant sections of the Cabinet Manual.
If we are to shift to a republic, one of the things we need to nail down are the...
Project discussion: Elect the Governor-General
Constitution (Election of Governor-General) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
Constitution (Election of Governor-General) Amendment...
Project discussion: Remove the Royal Assent
Constitution (Removal of Royal Assent) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
Constitution (Removal of Royal Assent) Amendment Bill
The...
Project discussion: Codify the reserve powers
Constitution (Reserve Powers) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
Constitution (Reserve Powers) Amendment Bill
The Parliament of New...
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Holding page for laws relating to copyright, IP, creative commons etc.
This amends the Copyright Act 1994 as follows:
- Define
Indemnity Fee - a regular fee paid by a person to share copyright works in the form of computer files
Indemnity Collecting Body - a body...
Project discussion: Blasphemy repeal
Crimes (Blasphemy Repeal) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
This bill amends the Crimes Act 1961 to repeal the crime of blasphemous libel....
Project discussion: Remove the homosexual panic defence
Crimes (Repeal Of Partial Defence Of Provocation) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory note
(TBA)
Crimes (Repeal Of Partial Defence Of...
Project discussion: Ban the import of goods produced with slave labour
Customs and Excise (Prohibition of Imports Made by Child Labour) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Customs...
Project discussion: Ban the import of goods produced with slave labour
Customs and Excise (Prohibition of Imports Made by Slave Labour) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
Slavery was...
This is an idea I got from a Greeny mate of mine who used to work in the Department of Labour. The idea involves prohibiting Directors from managing companies if they've seriously breached the...
Can we resuscitate the old bill? or was it so compromised we should start again?
Relevant documents
Report under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 on the Death with Dignity Bill 2003
Project discussion: Ban Depleted Uranium
Depleted Uranium (Prohibition) Billl
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Depleted Uranium (Prohibition) Bill
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as...
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Relevant legislation
Misuses of Drugs Act 1981
Potential changes
<to go here>
Problems
Both Major parties are publically against any form of drug law reform that doesn't...
Project discussion: Secular Secondary Education
Education (Freedom Of Religion) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Education (Freedom Of Religion) Amendment Bill
The Parliament of...
Project discussion: Entrench the Māori seats
Electoral (Entrenchment of Māori Seats) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
(TBD)
This bil amends the Electoral Act 1993 to entrench the...
Project discussion: Fixed Election Dates
Electoral (Establishment of Fixed Election Dates) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
An Act to establish a fixed date for the dissolution of...
Project discussion: Remove Electoral Prosecution Limits
Electoral (Prosecution Limits Repeal) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
An Act to remove the time limit for prosecution of...
Project discussion: Remove the MMP threshold
Electoral (Repeal of Threshold) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
(TBD)
Electoral (Repeal of Threshold) Amendment Bill
The Parliament of...
Currently, the Prime Minister can advise the Sovereign to appoint pretty much whoever they want as Governor-General. Since the Governor-General has significant constitutional powers in the...
Project discussion: Remove the dairy and meat industries from the list of essential services
Employment Relations (Essential Services) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory...
Project discussion: Repeal the 90 day bill
Employment Relations (Probationary Period Repeal) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
(TBD)
Employment Relations (Probationary Period Repeal)...
Project discussion: Repeal the 90 day bill
Employment Relations (Restoration of Kiwisaver Fairness) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
In 2008 Parliament passed the Employment...
Original discussion here.
Currently, there is a yawning inequality in our electoral system: general electorate seats are constitutionally entrenched, while the Maori seats which guarantee Maori...
Project discussion: Pay Equity Statistics
Equal Pay (Disclosure) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Equal Pay (Disclosure) Amendment Bill
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as...
No project discussion is linked yet.
Currently, while there is a term limit on Parliament, Parliament does not dissolve on a specific day, and there is no requirement to set elections in a speedy...
Repeal section 11 (offences involving New Zealand Flag) of the Flags, Emblems and Names Protection Act 1981.
This is an antiquated offence that like sedition and blasphemy should be consigned to...
Project discussion: Flags Emblems And Names Protection Amendment
Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection (Freedom of Expression) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
This bill amends the...
Holding page for all bills related to improving freedom of speech
I believe that primary and secondary education should be free (this is required by s3 of the Education Act 1989, but widely abused by schools demanding donations).
I'd suggest implementing this as...
Project discussion: Mondayize Public Holidays
Holidays (Anzac Day Mondayization) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Holidays (Anzac Day Mondayization) Amendment Bill
The...
Project discussion: Mondayize Public Holidays
Holidays (Easter Sunday) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Holidays (Easter Sunday) Amendment Bill
The Parliament of New Zealand...
Project discussion: Mondayize Public Holidays
Holidays (Matariki) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Holidays (Matariki) Amendment Bill
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as...
Project discussion: Increase Sick Leave Entitlements
Holidays (Sick Leave) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
Currently New Zealand workers are entitled to five days paid sick leave a...
Project discussion: Mondayize Public Holidays
Holidays (Waitangi Day Mondayization Amendment) Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Holidays (Waitangi Day Mondayization) Amendment Bill
The...
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Currently New Zealand workers are entitled to five days paid sick leave a year, which can be taken when they, their partner, or a dependent is ill. However, recent research by Southern Cross Health...
Reasons for:
Public safety
Decrease in car driving, pollution, congestion
Increase public transport use
Lower road toll of young inexperienced drink drivers
Increase cycle use (good for...
If National refuses to increase the minimum wage, then there is always the option of increasing it by a member's bill. We shouldn't have any trouble selling the idea to an MP.
Relevant...
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I realise this is a "project too far" for a Member's Bill, but the issue should be higher on the political agenda now that our national financial position is mirroring Iceland. A lively debate is...
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Local body Rates are feudal relic and should be abolished. There is no obvious and equitable link between taxation (of property) by local government and the delivery of services to all its...
Local body Rates are feudal relic and should be abolished. There is no obvious and equitable link between taxation (of property) by local government and the delivery of services to all its...
Ideally this should form part of a broader bill legalising drugs in general, as part of a policy abolishing prohibition.
There should also be provisions for licensed premises specifically catering...
A minority of countries around the world have a voting age younger than 18. Among them, Austria, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba and the Channel Islands (Wikipedia reference:...
Original discussion here
Section 107 (2) of the Resource Management Act 1991 allows consent authorities to grant resource consents allowing the discharge of contaminants into water such as lakes,...
Project discussion: Same sex marriage
Marriage (Equality) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
TBA
Marriage (Equality) Amendment Bill
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
1....
What would help?
more rigour on setting the questions
a regular cycle giving expected dates
a more explicit expectation that someone will do something about the outcome
a lower triggering...
What is a Member's Bill?
Most of the time, Parliament deals with government business. But every second Wednesday, they have a "Member's Day" - a chance for MPs of any party to put forward their own...
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
To reclassify Cannabis as a class D restricted substance
Misuse Of Drugs (Cannabis Reclassification) Amendment Bill
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as...
To require all drugs to be reclassified on the basis of objective harm, all drugs which are found to be safer than Alchohol shall be deemed legal, all those more dangerous than alchohol shall be...
The Bill of Rights and supporting legislation clearly needs to change with respect to the members of ACT.
I would suggest:
- add a clause 5.1 to the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act
(None of these...
Original discussion here
Relevant legislation
Holidays Act 2003
Proposed changes
Adding a public holiday is a simple matter of amending the list in s44 (1)
Mondayizing a public holiday (e.g. ANZAC...
An idea proposed by the Great Apes Project about granting non-human hominids personhood. Clearly there would be considerable work needed to work through the implications but the idea is sound.
The section 9 of the Defence Act provides the Minister of Defence with the authority to use the NZDF for public services and civil purpose but requires notification to the House. The Minister's...
Project discussion: Allow oaths and declarations in other languages
Oaths And Declarations (Other Languages) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
(TBD)
Oaths and Declarations (Other...
Do we need to do this or will the Greens do it? Either way it should cover both removing the OIA exemptions and toughening the process to provide a disincentive to bad behaviour by...
Section 9 of the Defence Act 1990 requires the Minister of Defence to use the NZDF for public purposes or assisting the civil power but also requires the Minister to notify the House. Under section...
There appears to be no agency with a mandate to investigate police processes. The ombudsmen explicitly can't, and the IPCA don't seem to do it. This leaves a serious accountability and oversight...
One of the problems in pay equity is a lack of information. This allows employers to hide discrimination.
In the UK, they are resolving this by forcing large employers to publish annual pay equity...
It seems that the current government is determined to reduce the opportunities for members bills etc, by motioning the house into urgency.
See:
another misuse of urgency
urgency again
So, perhaps...
When the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 was first floated, it included a clause recognising and affirming rights under the Treaty of Waitangi. This clause was subsequently removed by a select...
No project discussion is linked yet.
At the moment there is a 6-month limit within which a prosecution must be brought forward for crimes under the Electoral Act, which includes voter fraud,...
Original discussion here
Thanks to Robert Muldoon, the dairy and meat industries were listed as essential services in which strikes and lockouts were restricted. The designation has been carried...
Farming is a highly polluting activity. However, due to an exemption in the law, it does not in and of itself require resource consent. Farmers may require consents to errect milking sheds, store...
The Law Commission started working on this in 2004 and reported in 2007 but nothing seems to have happened since. It should be an easy draft because we have the LC's recommendation:
The partial...
Original discussion here
Electoral (Repeal of Threshold) Amendment Bill
Original discussion here
Once upon a time, the head of state had a veto power over legislation passed by the elected Parliament. This power has not been exercised in our constitutional history...
The Broadcasting Act 1989 is a 20 year old fossil that has barely kept up to date with changes in the current media landscape, media technology and the spread of new media. It probably needs...
A touchstone for the left: repealing National's "90 day bill". There should be no problem finding an MP willing to front this measure.
Relevant legislation
The Employment Relations Amendment Bill...
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
To repeal the law banning BZP
Bill Title
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
1. Title
2. Commencement
This Act comes into force on the day after the date...
Around 40% of New Zealanders support New Zealand becoming a republic. This topic is for the development of a Bill that will provide for a process that will:
Provide for a simple "yes" "no"...
Project discussion: Remove the farmer exemption from the RMA
Resource Management (Farming Inclusion) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
Farming is a highly polluting activity....
Project discussion: Make temporary resource consents temporary
Resource Management (Temporary Consents) Amendment Bill
Member's Bill
Explanatory Note
Section 107 (2) of the Resource Management...
Project discussion: secularise royal titles and styles
Royal Titles Amendment Bill
Member’s Bill
Explanatory Note
This Bill amends and modernises the Queen of New Zealand’s Royal title to...
Currently New Zealand law interprets the Marriage Act 1955 as applying only to opposite-sex couples (see Quilter v Attorney-General (1998) 1 NZLR 523). While a move to amend the law to same-sex...
A proposal to remove the words, “by the Grace of God” and “Defender of the Faith” from the current Royal title and style because they're inappropriate in a modern New Zealand context.
This...
At present, state primary schools are required to provide teaching "entirely of a secular character", and legislation requires that any religious instruction or observance be offered entirely...
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