This bill gives effect to the agreement between the Crown and Ngā Toenga o Ngā Tamariki a Iharaira me Ngā Uri o Maungapōhatu Charitable Trust to provide a statutory pardon for Rua Kēnana.

This omnibus bill is the second bill in a suite of legislation to reform water services delivery in New Zealand. The single broad policy for this bill is to establish and empower water services entities by setting out their functions, powers, obligations, and oversight arrangements.

This bill provides express statutory authority for the Minister of Foreign Affairs to continue to issue consular loans, consistent with New Zealand's consular functions, to New Zealand citizens and permanent residents where exceptional circumstances exist.

This is a bill to restate and reform the law relating to Māori land.

This bill establishes four publicly owned water services entities that will provide safe, reliable, and efficient water services in place of local authorities.

This bill would amend the Local Electoral Act 2001 to address concerns around candidate safety by loosening the requirement that candidates attach either their residential or business address to electoral advertising, allowing email addresses, PO box or phone numbers, or links to an internet page to be used instead.

This bill establishes a framework for implementing sanctions by New Zealand in response to the aggressive acts and other breaches of international law by the Russian Federation, in particular, its illegal invasion of Ukraine. These sanctions are to be imposed and enforced on individuals or entities that are responsible for, or are associated with, actions that undermine the sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine or that are of economic or strategic relevance to Russia.

This bill provides powers to enforcement officers to respond to a range of criminal offending in international waters including offences that take place on board a New Zealand-flagged vessel in international waters, offences that take place on board a foreign-flagged vessel or stateless vessel in international waters for which New Zealand has extraterritorial jurisdiction, and situations where an alleged offender or evidence of criminal offending is located on a New Zealand, foreign, or stateless vessel in international waters.

This bill amends the Local Electoral Act 2001 to align the treatment of Māori wards and constituencies with the treatment of general wards and constituencies, remove all mechanisms for binding polls to be held on the establishment of Māori wards and constituencies, and provide local authorities with an opportunity to make decisions on Māori wards and constituencies in time for the 2022 local elections.

This bill is intended to bring charter schools under the provisions of the Official Information Act 1982 and the Ombudsmen Act 1975.