The purpose of this bill is to better protect our border by deterring offenders from bringing in illegal biosecurity risks items such as fruit or other food by increasing the immediate fine and giving officers stronger authority to refuse entry in some cases.

This bill amends the Local Government Act 2002 to require that local authorities promote a customer focus to delivering public services and regulatory functions.

This bill amends the Commerce Act 1986, introducing criminal sanctions for hard-core cartel behaviour and making amendments to provisions that govern jurisdiction and penalties.

This Bill introduces a public interest test into New Zealand's anti-dumping and countervailing duties regime; it introduces a provision allowing for an anti-dumping and a countervailing duty to be deferred if users of the goods have been significantly impacted by a natural disaster or other emergency; and it makes a number of other minor and technical changes.