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Immigration Act 2009

Repeals, transitional provisions, saving provisions, and related matters - Transitional and savings provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

470: Sponsorship under former Act

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“Old sponsorship promises still apply under new immigration law”

You need to know about what happens to sponsorship promises made under the old immigration law. If someone made a written promise about a person’s job, housing, living costs, or return travel when that person applied for permission to enter or stay in New Zealand under the old law, and that promise was still active when the new law started, it’s treated as if it was made under the new law. This means the new law applies to that promise, with any changes needed to make it work.

However, there’s one part of the new law that doesn’t apply to these old promises. The part that says the government can make rules about what happens if the promise isn’t kept doesn’t apply to these old promises.

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Part 12 Repeals, transitional provisions, saving provisions, and related matters
Transitional and savings provisions: Miscellaneous provisions

470Sponsorship under former Act

  1. This section applies to an undertaking if—

  2. a person has supplied a written undertaking relating to the employment, accommodation, maintenance, or repatriation of an applicant for a visa or permit under the former Act (whether under section 28 of that Act or otherwise); and
    1. the undertaking is in force immediately before the commencement of section 404 of this Act.

      1. The undertaking must be treated as an undertaking to which section 55 of this Act applies, and this Act applies accordingly with any necessary modifications.

      2. Despite subsection (2), nothing in section 55(3)(b) applies to an undertaking to which this section applies.