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Central Government Aims and Local Government Responses: The Prostitution Reform Act 2003

Publications - Central Government aims and local Government Responses

Prepared for the Ministry of Justice by
Dr Elaine Mossman and Pat Mayhew
Crime and Justice Research Centre
Victoria University of Wellington

Summary

1 Introduction

1.1 The Prostitution Reform Act 2003
1.2 The literature reviewed
1.3 Experts consulted

2 Local and central government roles

2.1 Relationship between central and local government
2.2 Nature of local government in New Zealand
2.3 How tensions arise

3 Existing mechanisms in New Zealand for resolving tension

3.1 Judicial review
3.2 Solutions suggested

4 Overseas experience

4.1 New South Wales, Australia
4.2 Victoria, Australia
4.3 Queensland, Australia
4.4 Netherlands

5 Conclusions

References

Full report (PDF, 86Kb)

First published in October 2007 by the

Ministry of Justice
PO Box 180
Wellington
New Zealand

© Crown Copyright

ISBN 978-0-478-29049-7

The views, opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are strictly those of the author/s. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice takes no responsibility for any errors or omissions in, or for the correctness of, the information contained in the publication.

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