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144B: Consent of Attorney-General required
or “The Attorney-General must agree before someone can be officially accused of a sexual crime committed outside New Zealand.”
You could also call this:

“It's against the law to help set up trips for people to go overseas to hurt children.”

If you make or organise travel plans for someone else to help them commit a crime against children in another country, you can go to prison for up to 7 years. This is true even if the other person doesn’t actually commit the crime.

You can also go to prison for up to 7 years if you take someone to another country to help them commit a crime against children, even if they don’t end up doing it.

If you print or share information that encourages people to commit crimes against children in other countries, or helps them do it, you can also go to prison for up to 7 years.

When we talk about making travel plans, we mean things like buying tickets to go to another country or booking a place to stay there.

Sharing information means telling people about it in any way, like writing it down, putting it on the internet, or telling people in other ways. It also includes giving that information to other people.

Section 144A talks about the specific crimes against children that this law is trying to stop.

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Part 7 Crimes against morality and decency, sexual crimes, and crimes against public welfare
Sexual offences outside New Zealand

144COrganising or promoting child sex tours

  1. Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who—

  2. makes or organises any travel arrangements for or on behalf of any other person with the intention of facilitating the commission by that other person of an offence against section 144A, whether or not such an offence is actually committed by that other person; or
    1. transports any other person to a place outside New Zealand with the intention of facilitating the commission by that other person of an offence against section 144A, whether or not such an offence is actually committed by that other person; or
      1. prints or publishes any information that is intended to promote conduct that would constitute an offence against section 144A, or to assist any other person to engage in such conduct.

        1. For the purposes of this section,—

        2. the making or organising of travel arrangements includes, but is not limited to,—
          1. the purchase or reservation of tickets for travel to a country outside New Zealand:
            1. the purchase or reservation of accommodation in a country outside New Zealand:
            2. the publication of information means publication of information by any means, whether by written, electronic, or other form of communication; and includes the distribution of information.

              Notes
              • Section 144C: inserted, on , by section 2 of the Crimes Amendment Act 1995 (1995 No 49).