Parliament Bill
This bill rewrites and combines the rules about how Parliament works as an organisation. It covers things like the legal protections MPs have for what they say in Parliament, how the Speaker runs the parliamentary buildings, what pay and expenses MPs and Ministers can claim, how the staff who run Parliament are employed, and the powers of security officers who keep Parliament safe. It replaces four older laws with one updated law.
What this affects
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The bill sets out what security officers at Parliament can and cannot do, including searching people, detaining them, and removing them from the Parliament buildings
establishes the role of parliamentary security officer and confers powers and duties on those officers
Power to ask for identification
Power to ask to search
Power to detain person
Power to use handcuffs
Progress through Parliament
Have your say
Submissions open once a bill reaches the select committee stage. In the meantime, you can write to your local MP about it.
Write to your MPBill text sourced from legislation.govt.nz (Parliamentary Counsel Office). Arapono’s summary and breakdown are drafted with AI grounded in that official text and reviewed by an Arapono editor for accuracy and neutrality before publishing. Arapono is non-partisan and takes no position on this bill.