NZBORA Advice Fuel Industry Amendment Bill [pdf, 248 KB]
...Bill’s objective. 1 The Supreme Court has held that an unreasonable search logically cannot be demonstrably justified under section 5 of the Bill of Rights Act and therefore the inquiry does not need to be undertaken (see Hamed v R [2011] NZSC 101, [2012] 2 NZLR 305 at [162] per Blanchard J). Rather, s 21 is self-limiting in that the assessment to be undertaken is whether the search power is reasonable. 2 Hansen v R [2007] NZSC 7, [2007] 3 NZLR 1. 14. The strict liability offe...