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346: Impersonation
or “It's illegal to pretend to be an immigration or refugee officer”
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“Spreading false information about immigrating to New Zealand is illegal”

If you publish or spread information about immigration to New Zealand that you know is not true or is misleading, you are breaking the law. This applies if you are trying to encourage, convince, discourage, or stop any person or group of people from immigrating to New Zealand. It’s also illegal if you make someone else publish this false or misleading information. This is considered an offence against the Immigration Act.

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Part 10 Offences, penalties, and proceedings
Offences

347Publishing false or misleading information

  1. Every person commits an offence against this Act who, for the purpose of encouraging, inducing, deterring, or preventing immigration to New Zealand of any person or class of persons, publishes, disseminates, or causes or procures the publication of any information or representation knowing that the information or representation is false or misleading.

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