The Council made a submission on the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill due to our concerns with the bill’s proposal to allow officers to perform searches without a warrant.

Section 87 applies to both registered places, which the Council finds acceptable, and to places where “the officer believes on reasonable grounds that it is a place to which this section applies”. The Council believes this warrantless search violates section 21 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (1990).

Read the full text of our submission (PDF).