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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