The single broad policy of this omnibus bill is to deter antisocial driving behaviour that negatively affects road and community safety in New Zealand.
This bill has been accorded urgency in the House. First detected 11 July 2026, 9:19am UTC.
The avenues that remain: petitions to Parliament (including seeking amendment or repeal); consultation on the regulations that often follow an Act, which do carry public submission windows; and the member in charge or your electorate MP on implementation problems — post-passage corrections ride in later amendment bills.
| Stage | Sitting day | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Committee of the whole House | 30 Jun 2026 | The committee stage of the Antisocial Road Use Legislation Amendment Bill was completed. source · debate & vote (Hansard) |
| Third reading | 30 Jun 2026 | The Antisocial Road Use Legislation Amendment Bill was read a third time. source · debate & vote (Hansard) |
Dates are sitting days as recorded by the Office of the Clerk; a sitting extended under urgency continues under its original day. Readings are decided by party vote: each party casts its members’ votes en bloc (proxies included), so the whole House needn’t be present and individual attendance isn’t recorded — the party-by-party tally for each reading is in that day’s Hansard, linked per stage above.
Members who took a call in this bill’s debates, from our Hansard corpus. Under urgency several bills are often debated together (a “cognate” debate), so speakers may be addressing the group of bills.
Topics in the OpenBrief corpus matched to this bill’s title, with their volume over the last six weeks — how loud the subject already was when urgency was moved. This is retrieval against our existing corpus, not model judgement.
| Topic | Press items · 6wk | Social posts · 6wk |
|---|---|---|
| antisocial road use legislation | 1 | 1 |
AI-assisted analysis · every claim links to primary source ·
corrections
Published 15 Jul 2026, 7:20pm UTC (separate from, and later than, the alert timestamp above)
· model: claude-opus-4-8
In short: Creates a new "frightening or intimidating convoy" offence and requires courts to forfeit (or forfeit and destroy) vehicles used in certain road-use offences.
“A person commits an offence if the person— (a) engages in dangerous or reckless activity offence conduct (see subsection (2)); and (b) operates the motor vehicle used in engaging in that conduct”
“The court must order that the motor vehicle used in the commission of the offence— (a) be forfeited to the Crown; or (b) be forfeited to the Crown and destroyed.”
“The registered person or hirer must provide the information requested under subsection (4)— (a) to an enforcement officer; and (b) immediately after it is requested.”
“If a place or part of a place is closed under subsection (2), a constable may direct a person to leave, or not to enter, the place or the part of the place.”
“A person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a direction under section 35A(4) commits an infringement offence and is liable to— (a) an infringement fee of $1,000; or (b) a fine imposed by a court not exceeding $3,000.”
“An enforcement officer must, if practicable, seize and impound, or seize and authorise the impoundment of, a motor vehicle for 28 days if the officer believes on reasonable grounds that the driver has committed an offence against section 39A”
“A person who commits an offence against subsection (3) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.”
“In Schedule 1, item relating to rule 7.4(2) of the Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004, replace the items in the third and fifth columns with: 3,000 300”
Taken under urgency; the compressed timetable limited scrutiny even where a committee stage existed.
Method: the model reads the bill as published (claude-opus-4-8); every claim above carries a verbatim span of that text, checked mechanically — claims that fail the check are dropped, not softened. Text analysed from an archived copy of the official text. Full methodology →
A motion to accord urgency to the following business was agreed to: - the remaining stages of: - the Antisocial Road Use Legislation Amendment Bill; - the Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill; - the Offshore Renewable Energy Bill; - the Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill; and - the Regulatory Systems (Primary Industries) Amendment Bill; - the first reading and referral to a select committee of: - the Building Amendment Bill; and - the Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Bill; - the second reading of: - the Local Government (System Improvements) Amendment Bill; - the Crimes Amendment Bill; - the Land Transport (Revenue) Amendment Bill; - the Infrastructure Funding and Financing Amendment Bill; and - the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) (3 Day Postnatal Stay) Amendment Bill; - the first reading and referral to a select committee of: - the Community Magistrates Legislation Amendment Bill; and - the Environmental Reporting Amendment Bill; - the second reading of: - the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill; and - the Emergency Management Bill (No 2); - the first reading and referral to a select committee of the Regulatory Systems (Social Security) Amendment Bill (No 2); - the discharge and re-committal to a select committee of the Regulatory Systems (Courts) Amendment Bill; and - the remaining stages of: - the Regulatory Systems (Tribunals) Amendment Bill and the Regulatory Systems (Occupational Regulation) Amendment Bill; - the Mental Health Bill; - the Plain Language Act Repeal Bill; and - the Constitution Amendment Bill.
