Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Amendments, repeals, and miscellaneous provisions - Amendments to search and seizure powers in other enactments (and to related provisions) used for law enforcement purposes or for law enforcement and regulatory purposes - Amendment to Petroleum Demand Restraint Act 1981

291: Amendment to Petroleum Demand Restraint Act 1981

You could also call this:

"Changing the rules for searching for evidence of breaking petrol rules"

The law is changing the Petroleum Demand Restraint Act 1981. You can find this Act on the New Zealand legislation website. This change affects what happens when someone is suspected of breaking the rules of this Act or its regulations.

The change says that regulations can be made about searching for evidence of these suspected rule breaks. This can happen even if the suspected rule break is not serious enough to result in prison time.

Some people, chosen by the Minister, will be allowed to search places, vehicles, or things if they have a warrant. These searches will follow the rules set out in the Search and Surveillance Act 2012. The people doing the searches will be treated as enforcement officers, and they will be able to apply for a warrant to search for evidence.

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This page was last updated on 24 May 2025

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290: Return or forfeiture of property seized, or

"What happens to things that the police take during a search?"

292: Amendments to Pork Industry Board Act 1997, or

"Changes to the Pork Industry Board Act 1997 to match new search and surveillance rules"

Part 5Amendments, repeals, and miscellaneous provisions
Amendments to search and seizure powers in other enactments (and to related provisions) used for law enforcement purposes or for law enforcement and regulatory purposes: Amendment to Petroleum Demand Restraint Act 1981

291Amendment to Petroleum Demand Restraint Act 1981

This section amends the Petroleum Demand Restraint Act 1981.
Section 17 is amended by repealing subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:
Petroleum demand restraint regulations may provide for the following matters in respect of suspected offences against this Act or against any petroleum demand restraint regulations, regardless of whether any such suspected offences (relevant offences) are imprisonable or not:
authorising persons, designated by the Minister in writing for the purpose (designated persons), to search places, vehicles, or other things under a warrant in relation to any relevant offence:
providing for the application of provisions of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 to the powers conferred under paragraph (a) and, in particular and without limitation,—
1. deeming all designated persons, or any designated persons of a specified class, to be enforcement officers for the purposes of that Act:
2. authorising all designated persons, or any designated persons of a specified class, to apply for a warrant under section 6 of that Act as if such designated persons were constables.

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