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Parliament Bill

Parliamentary security - Application of parliamentary security officers’ powers and duties

166: Where parliamentary security officers’ powers and duties may be exercised or performed

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"Where security officers can work at Parliament and other meeting places"

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You can exercise parliamentary security officers' powers and duties in the parliamentary precincts. They can also be exercised in other places, like where a parliamentary meeting is held. This can happen if the chief executive has given permission under section 167. You need to think of these other places as if they were the parliamentary precincts. A specific place is somewhere in New Zealand, outside the parliamentary precincts, where a parliamentary meeting is held. It includes areas used to get to the meeting, like a lobby or foyer. If the rules about other places apply, you must read the rules as if they were about those places. This means you can exercise parliamentary security officers' powers and duties in those places. You can do this when a parliamentary meeting is scheduled or being held.

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Part 7Parliamentary security
Application of parliamentary security officers’ powers and duties

166Where parliamentary security officers’ powers and duties may be exercised or performed

  1. The powers and duties conferred on parliamentary security officers by this Part may be exercised or performed only in the parliamentary precincts.

  2. However, those powers and duties may also be exercised or performed—

  3. in a specific place on the day when a parliamentary meeting is scheduled to be held, or is held, at that specific place:
    1. in an electorate and community office, if the chief executive has authorised their exercise or performance under section 167.

      1. If subsection (2) applies, all references in this Part to parliamentary precincts must be read as if they were references to the specific place or to the particular electorate and community office, as applicable.

      2. In this section, specific place—

      3. means a part of a building or structure or a place outdoors that is—
        1. in New Zealand; and
          1. outside the parliamentary precincts; and
            1. being used or scheduled to be used to hold a parliamentary meeting; and
            2. includes any area that is being used or is scheduled to be used to provide access to the parliamentary meeting or to otherwise facilitate holding the parliamentary meeting (for example, a lobby or a foyer).