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aigantighe

Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act

Sep 15, 2010 13:27

Like many, I’m pretty incensed at the passing of the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act (CERRA) in the last 24 hours or so.

For those who need context, please read these two posts, one from Idiot/Savant, the other from KiwiPolitico. Basically, the act allows the governor-general (at the request of Gerry Brownlee, a Minister of the ( Read more... )

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Its not just 22 laws anonymous September 15 2010, 21:01:19 UTC

It's all of them except the six listed, as the precursor statement to the ist in s6(4) is "including (but not limited to)-"
And when joined with the previous subsection providing absolute protection from the courts, and

When noting that the GG is a potential protection, but is also up for replacement before the end of this legislation (sign in Sir Jim Bolger) - oh what a tangled web we weave!

Re: Its not just 22 laws xenogram September 15 2010, 22:03:03 UTC

Yeah, that's what makes this so totalitarian. It's specifically not limited to these laws, his powers under the act are almost unlimited.

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