New Zealand law explained for everyone
If you hit, push, or hurt someone in any way, you are committing what’s called a ‘common assault’. This is against the law. If you do this, you could go to jail for up to one year. The law says this applies to anyone who assaults another person. It doesn’t matter who you are or who the other person is; this rule is the same for everyone.
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or “Making someone unable to act by knocking them out or making them sleepy on purpose is against the law.”Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 1 year who assaults any other person.