New Zealand Acts

MERCENARY ACTIVITIES (PROHIBITION) ACT 2004

- As at 5 April 2025
- Act 69 of 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Title

   PART 1 - Preliminary provisions

   2.      Commencement
   3.      Purpose
   4.      Interpretation
   5.      Mercenary defined
   6.      Act binds the Crown

   PART 2 - Mercenary activities

   7.      Recruiting person to be mercenary
   8.      Using mercenary
   9.      Financing mercenary
   10.     Training prospective mercenary
   11.     Training mercenary
   12.     Mercenary taking part in hostilities or concerted act of violence
   13.     Extraterritorial jurisdiction

   PART 3 - Miscellaneous provisions

   14.     Certificate as to States Parties under Mercenaries Convention
   15.     Application of sections 16 and 17
   16.     Attorney-General to notify relevant States Parties of measures taken to ensure person’s presence
   17.     Attorney-General to indicate to relevant States Parties whether New Zealand to exercise jurisdiction
   18.     Rights of certain persons taken into custody to communicate with representative of State
   19.     Attorney-General’s consent to prosecutions required
   20.     Attorney-General to communicate outcome of prosecution
   21.     Offences deemed to be included in extradition treaties
   22.     Amendment to Extradition Act 1999
   23.     Schedule of Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992 amended to refer to Mercenaries Convention
           International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries