Category: Section 59 – The Bill
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Family First Welcomes Bill to Fix Smacking Law
MEDIA RELEASE 19 March 2009 Family First Welcomes Bill to Fix Smacking Law Family First NZ is ‘stoked’ that ACT List MP John Boscawen has announced his intention to introduce a Private Members Bill to amend the anti-smacking law. “Our polling along with every other poll done over the past 3 years shows that approximately…
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Amendment To Fix Broken Anti-Smacking Law
Amendment To Fix Broken Anti-Smacking Law Immediate Release: Thursday March 19, 2009 ACT New Zealand MP John Boscawen today announced that he will introduce a Private Member’s Bill to amend the controversial Anti-Smacking law inflicted on New Zealanders by Labour and the Greens in 2007. “My announcement coincides with yesterday’s release of a poll that…
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Family First – Poll reveals backlash over smacking law
From Family First e-newsletter. To subscribe to this newsletter send an email to: admin@familyfirst.org.nz 1. Poll reveals backlash over smacking law The anti-smacking law is still enormously unpopular, a Herald election survey has found LISTEN Bob McCoskrie on National Radio The Panel discussing the latest poll results and the continued opposition to the law(starts at…
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Critique of the so-called ‘anti-smacking law’
Critique of the so-called ‘anti-smacking law’. Old Section 59: Every parent of a child and…every person in the place of the parent of a child is justified in using force by way of correction towards the child, if the force used is reasonable in the circumstances. New Section 59: Parental Control (1) Every parent of…
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Section 59 old and new
Old Section 59: Every parent of a child and…every person in the place of the parent of a child is justified in using force by way of correction towards the child, if the force used is reasonable in the circumstances. New Section 59: Parental Control (1) Every parent of a child and every person in…
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More Support for Referendum
http://republicans.org.nz/2008/mt-albert-launch-wayne-hawkins/ Remember Sue Bradford’s amendment to the Crimes Act, the anti smacking bill? Eighty per cent of you said you didn’t want it. So what did the parliamentarians do? They passed it against your wishes. That bill should have gone to a binding National Referendum. You should have a chance to have your say. If…
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Family First: CAN YOU HELP US?
17 Jul 2008 CAN YOU HELP US ‘SLEDGEHAMMER’ A FEW MYTHS Myth #1 : There have been no prosecutions under the new anti-smacking law FALSE Myth #2 : The anti-smacking law has not resulted in good parents being investigated and interrogated by the police or CYF FALSE We have evidence of a number of examples…
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Six Month Review of the s59 Amendment (Anti-smacking Bill)
http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/4027.html 5:05pm 23 June 2008 Police have undertaken a second review of the amendment of section 59 of the Crimes Act (the Smacking Bill) covering the period 29 September 2007 to 4 April 2008. This review covers a period of just over six months. In order to make comparisons with the initial three month review,…
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Anti-Smacking Law, One Year On
Thanks Andy for reminding us again of this dark moment in New Zealand’s history 12 months ago. Visit Andy’s site to make comments on this: http://section59.blogspot.com/2008/05/anti-smacking-law-one-year-on.html Anti-Smacking Law, One Year On One year ago, on 2 May 2008, Sue Bradford’s Anti-Smacking Bill passed it’s third reading. The bill had the numbers to pass, however the…
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Progress of the Bill
In Committee – 14 & 28 Mar 2007/2 May – 2nd Reading of Section 59 plus committee stages http://theyworkforyou.co.nz/bills/crimes_abolition_of_force_justification