Status: Completed
Terms of reference
The Law Commission has been asked to consider and report on the following questions:
- What executive powers are needed and justified to deal effectively with a national emergency in New Zealand, in a manner consistent with our basic constitutional system and traditions;
- What rights and freedoms ought not to be derogated from in any national emergency;
- What procedures are most appropriate for bringing emergency powers into effect;
- What safeguards are needed to confine the exercise of emergency powers to a national emergency;
- What limits and controls should be placed on the exercise of emergency powers, and what remedies should there be for the abuse of these posers;
- What changes are needed in the existing law to achieve these objects.