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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Regulation of immigration advisers - Immigration advisers to be licensed, unless exempt

17: Other matters relevant to fitness for licensing

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"What else is checked to see if you're suitable to be an immigration adviser?"

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When you apply to be an immigration adviser, the Registrar checks if you are fit to be licensed. The Registrar can look at things like if you have been convicted of a crime in New Zealand or another country, but not the crimes mentioned in sections 15 and 16. The Registrar can also consider if you have been in trouble for your behaviour in your job or any other job you have had. You might be related to someone by work or association, and the Registrar can look at if that person has been refused a licence, or is not allowed to be licensed under section 15, or has restrictions on being licensed under section 16. The Registrar can look at other things that are relevant to your application, and can also consider if someone you are related to has a conviction or has been in trouble for their behaviour.

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Immigration advisers to be licensed, unless exempt

17Other matters relevant to fitness for licensing

  1. In determining a person's fitness to be licensed, the Registrar may take into account—

  2. any conviction, whether in New Zealand or in another country, for an offence of a kind other than those referred to in sections 15 and 16:
    1. any disciplinary proceedings, whether in New Zealand or in another country, and whether in relation to the provision of immigration advice or in relation to the conduct of any other occupation or profession, taken or being taken against the person (including any past cancellation or suspension of a licence under this Act, or any non-compliance with any other sanction imposed under this Act):
      1. whether or not the person is related by employment or association to a person—
        1. who has previously been refused a licence; or
          1. who is prohibited from being licensed under section 15; or
            1. who is subject to a restriction on being licensed under section 16; or
              1. who has a conviction for an offence of a kind referred to in paragraph (a); or
                1. against whom disciplinary proceedings of a kind referred to in paragraph (b) have been taken or are being taken:
                2. any other matters that the Registrar considers relevant.

                  Notes
                  • Section 17(c): replaced, on , by section 67 of the Statutes Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 74)
                  • Section 17(d): inserted, on , by section 30 of the Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 10).