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Parliament Act 2025

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

165: 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 a specific place when a parliamentary meeting is held there, or in an electorate and community office if the chief executive has authorised it under section 166. When this happens, the rules about parliamentary precincts also apply to that specific place or office. You need to know what a specific place is. It is a part of a building or a place outdoors in New Zealand, outside the parliamentary precincts, where a parliamentary meeting is being held. It also includes areas used to get to the meeting, like a lobby. The rules about parliamentary precincts apply to these places when parliamentary security officers exercise their powers and duties. This means you can think of these places as being like the parliamentary precincts when a meeting is being held. The chief executive's authorisation is important for electorate and community offices.

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

165Where 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 166.

      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).