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400: Regulations generally
or “Rules for immigration, entry, and related processes in New Zealand”
You could also call this:

“Rules for managing visas and applications to come to New Zealand”

The government can make rules about visas and expressions of interest. These rules can do several things:

They can say when you automatically get a certain type of visa.

They can decide who can apply for a residence visa at special places or when you arrive in New Zealand.

They can say which people don’t need a transit visa when they’re just passing through New Zealand.

They can set how long people can stay in New Zealand when they’re just passing through. This can be different for people with transit visas and people who don’t need them.

They can also say how you need to tell the government you’re interested in coming to New Zealand.

All these rules are part of how New Zealand manages who can come into the country and how they do it.

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Next up: 401A: Regulations relating to suspending ability to make applications for visas and expressions of interest

or “Rules for temporarily halting visa applications and expressions of interest (no longer in effect)”
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Part 11 Miscellaneous provisions
Regulations

401Regulations relating to visas and expressions of interest

  1. Without limiting section 400, regulations made under that section may—

  2. prescribe the situations under which a visa of a particular class and type is deemed under this Act to be granted to a person:
    1. prescribe who may apply for a residence class visa—
      1. at a place designated by the chief executive under section 383; or
        1. on arrival in New Zealand at an immigration control area or other prescribed place:
        2. classify persons to whom a transit visa waiver applies for the purposes of section 86:
          1. prescribe 1 or more transit periods, and different periods may be prescribed for the holders of transit visas and persons to whom a transit visa waiver applies:
            1. prescribe the manner in which an expression of interest must be made for the purposes of section 92(1).

              Notes
              • Section 401(d): replaced, on , by section 104 of the Immigration Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 48).