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A firearms register, tighter licensing system for gun owners and a new emphasis on safety and personal responsibility is the focus of new firearms legislation announced today.
- Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Prime Minister
- Police
The first full week of the firearms buy-back and amnesty has produced a strong turnout as events roll out nationwide for the first time.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
A new digital platform aims to make it easier for small businesses to access services from multiple government agencies, leaving them more time to focus on their own priorities.
- Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Prime Minister
- Small Business
Police Minister Stuart Nash says a solid start has been made to the gun buyback and amnesty after the first weekend of community collection events.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
Police Minister Stuart Nash has praised Police and gun owners after the first firearms collection event saw a busy turnout at Riccarton Racecourse in Christchurch.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
Seventy-eight new Police constables are heading out to the regions following today’s graduation of a new recruit wing from the Royal New Zealand Police College.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
The need to ensure high levels of public safety is the focus of plans revealed today for the first firearms collections during the buy-back and amnesty.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
The Government is investing in a sea trial of a new bait setting device that could help to eliminate seabird captures during the tuna longline setting process.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Conservation
- Fisheries
A new Ministerial Advisory Committee has been appointed to help shape the Government’s response to the conservation and fisheries related proposals in the Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari Hauraki Gulf Marine Spatial Plan.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Conservation
- Fisheries
Inland Revenue will gain greater powers to alert savings providers if a KiwiSaver investor is on the wrong tax rate, under new legislation introduced to Parliament.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
Reforms to tax rules designed to ensure greater fairness in child support, retail trade, and residential investment have now passed into law.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
Community hubs from the Kaitaia RSA to the Oban pavilion on Stewart Island will be used by Police to collect firearms handed in during the buy-back and amnesty.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
Licensed firearms owners will get fair compensation for weapons handed in during the six-month buy-back and amnesty, Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Police Minister Stuart Nash announced today.
- Hon Grant Robertson
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Finance
- Police
Inland Revenue is to gain greater oversight of land transfer information to ensure those buying and selling properties are complying with tax rules on property speculation.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
Offshore businesses that supply low-value goods to New Zealand have been granted a two-month extension to get systems in order for a new method to collect GST.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
The Government is taking action to expand and strengthen the protection for Māui and Hector’s dolphins with an updated plan to deal with threats to these native marine mammals.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Conservation
- Fisheries
Commercial fishing vessels at greatest risk of encountering the rare Māui dolphin will be required to operate with on-board cameras from 1 November, as the next step to strengthen our fisheries management system.
- Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Prime Minister
- Fisheries
A new record for the number of Police officers deployed to the regions in a single year has been created with the graduation today of Recruit Wing 326.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
New Zealand is pushing on with efforts to ensure multinational companies pay their fair share of tax, with the release of proposed options for a digital services tax (DST).
- Hon Grant Robertson
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Finance
- Revenue
Inland Revenue has released an issues paper on how to align an aspect of GST with international best practice and principles.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Revenue
Improving the safety of all road users is the focus of a new public consultation document on the issue of drug driver testing.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Julie Anne Genter
- Police
- Transport
Action is underway to enhance the protection of our precious marine biodiversity in the face of the global biodiversity crisis.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Hon Eugenie Sage
- Conservation
- Fisheries
Police Minister Stuart Nash says calling a cop suddenly got a whole lot easier with the launch of a ground-breaking new service for non-emergency calls.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police
Frontline Police numbers have been boosted with today’s deployment of 77 new officers to the regions.
- Hon Stuart Nash
- Police