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1. 2024 NZPSPLA 034 pdf [pdf, 82 KB]

   [2024] PSPLA 034 IN THE MATTER OF A complaint under s 74 of The Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) against XIANG ZHOU HEARD remotely on 18 April 2024 APPEARANCES Snr Constable Tangney for NZ Police X Zhou - no appearance DECISION [1] Police are asking for Xiang Zhou’s certificate of approval to be cancelled as he was convicted of obtaining by deception on 18 March 2024. Mr Zhou was sentenced to six months community detention...

2. RIS Regulatory Systems Justice Amendment Bill package [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...Officer LCS Lawyers Complaints Service MBIE Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment MVDT Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal NZLS New Zealand Law Society NZPB New Zealand Parole Board NZSOC New Zealand Society of Conveyancers PSPLA Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority PSPPI Act Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 RBNZ Reserve Bank of New Zealand REA The Real Estate Agents Authority REAA Real Estate Agents Act 2008 READT Real Estate...

3. New Zealands all-of-Government response to organised crime [pdf, 413 KB]

   ...markets. PLANNING AND COORDINATION Prioritisation of operational activity is informed by a regular biennial across-agency assessment of organised crime, which brings together information and intelligence from across government agencies and the private sector. Agency intelligence and responses are coordinated at the national level by various agencies, including Police and also the Organised and Financial Crime Agency in New Zealand (OFCANZ), which targets criminal groups who wo...

4. [2018] NZEmpC 106 X v The Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections [pdf, 683 KB]

   ...1 December 2014. The next day Ms Y sent an email to Mr Harrison advising him she had sought a police safety order because she did not feel safe. Hospitalisation and treatment [20] The Facebook post was a significant feature of the conduct investigated by the Department and it happened while Mr X was in hospital over concerns about his health. Initially he was a voluntary patient before being compulsorily detained for assessment and treatment. [21] On 4 November 2014, Mr X to...

5. 2023 NZPSPLA 058 [pdf, 90 KB]

   [2023] NZPSPLA 058 IN THE MATTER OF An Application for a Certificate of Approval by NICHOLAS MULOCK HOUWER and an application for a company licence by CENTIVE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED under the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 HEARD by video hearing on 7 September 2023 DECISION [1] In April 2023 I referred a complaint that Nicholas Mulock-Houwer was working as a security technician and consultant under the name of Centive Technologies wit...

6. BORA Regulatory Systems (Justice) Amendment Bill package [pdf, 267 KB]

   ...Amendments to include new information gathering powers 19. The Occupational Regulation Bill and Tribunals Bill each propose to introduce a new information gathering power in two regulatory regimes. 20. First, in the Tribunals Bill amending the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 giving the Complaints Investigation and Prosecutions Unit of the Department of Internal Affairs a new power to require documents and information from those subject to the licensing reg...

7. Tribunal Guidelines [pdf, 674 KB]

   ...Tribunal are New Zealand’s two largest tribunals. Between them, they resolve around 25,000 matters each year. F 7 In 2007-08, the Law Commission (with support from the Ministry of Justice) reviewed New Zealand’s tribunal system and investigated the possibility of a unified tribunal framework. The Commission identified several deficiencies with the current system. Tribunals have been established on an ad hoc basis. There is little consistency in powers, processes and proced...

8. 2025 NZPSPLA 035.pdf [pdf, 86 KB]

   [2025]NZPSPLA 035 IN THE MATTER OF a complaint by The Police under s 74 of the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (the Act) against KASIMANI TUPOUNIUA HEARD remotely on 1 April 2024 APPEARANCES Sergeant B Grantham for NZ Police K Tupouniua – no appearance DECISION [1] Police are asking for Kasimani Tupouniua security certificate to be cancelled as they say he is guilty of misconduct and is no longer suitable to be a responsible secur...

9. RIS: Protection of the name ombudsman [pdf, 510 KB]

   ...prepared for the purposes of informing decisions to be taken by Cabinet regarding the proposal to restrict the use of the name ‘ombudsman’ to a Parliamentary Ombudsman appointed under the Ombudsmen Act 1975 (with an exception for two existing private-sector bodies currently using the name). Proposing Ministers Minister of Justice Summary: Problem and Proposed Approach Problem Definition What problem or opportunity does this proposal seek to address? Why is Government in...

10. Vining Realty Group Limited v The Real Estate Agents Authority (CAC 408) [2017] NZREADT 57 [pdf, 209 KB]

    ...that the appellant had engaged in unsatisfactory conduct (“the substantive decision”).1 The Agency has also appealed against the Committee’s penalty decision, dated 20 September 2016.2 [2] The Committee’s decisions arose out of an investigation undertaken by the Committee under s 78(b) of the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 (“the Act”) after receiving a complaint (“the complaint”) from the vendors of a property at Tasman, near Nelson (“the property”), about the...