This bill amends several pieces of legislation and provides an overarching and coherent framework for dealing with security information in court proceedings.

The policy implemented by this omnibus bill is the repeal of the elements of the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act 2010 that collectively create what is commonly known as the three strikes law.

This bill amends the Returning Offenders (Management and Information) Act 2015 to ensure that the principal Act continues to put all returning offenders in roughly the same position they would have been in had they offended in New Zealand. Accordingly, the New Zealand Police will be able to collect information from returnees to establish their identity and support future investigations, and parole-like conditions will be available if a returnee has been deported after a prison sentence.

The purpose of this bill is to establish an annual public holiday to acknowledge Matariki. This bill sets the dates for the Matariki public holiday from 2022 to 2052, and provides for future dates for the Matariki public holiday.

This bill helps provide a mechanism for the Executive and the House of Representatives to consider, and, if they think fit, respond to, a declaration of inconsistency made under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 or the Human Rights Act 1993.