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MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 32

Special category visas

  (1)   There is a class of temporary visas to be known as special category visas.

  (2)   A criterion for a special category visa is that the Minister is satisfied the applicant is:

  (a)   a non - citizen:

  (i)   who is a New Zealand citizen and holds, and has presented to an officer or an authorised system, a New Zealand passport that is in force; and

  (ii)   is neither a behaviour concern non - citizen nor a health concern non - citizen; or

  (b)   a person declared by the regulations, to be a person for whom a visa of another class would be inappropriate; or

  (c)   a person in a class of persons declared by the regulations, to be persons for whom a visa of another class would be inappropriate.

  (3)   A person may comply with subparagraph   (2)(a)(i) by presenting a New Zealand passport to an authorised system only if:

  (a)   the New Zealand passport is of a kind determined under section   175A to be an eligible passport for the purposes of Division   5 of Part   2; and

  (c)   before the person is granted a special category visa, neither the system nor an officer requires the person to present the passport to an officer.


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