SpeechCRIMINAL ACTIVITY INTERVENTION LEGISLATION BILLSecond ReadingHon KIRITAPU ALLAN (Minister of Justice): I present a legislative statement on the Criminal Activity Intervention Legislation Bill.I move That the Criminal Activity Intervention Legislation Bill be now read a second time.DEPUTY SPEAKER: That legislative statement is published under the authority of the House and can be found on the Parliament website.Hon KIRITAPU ALLAN: Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a privilege to be able to come into the House this afternoon to be able to make this second reading speech. I know that many New Zealanders are concerned about crime and the impact that it has had on their whānau and their community. Our goal with this bill is to stop criminal organisations and other criminals from terrorising our communities by targeting the kinds of violent and intimidating behaviour that makes us feel unsafe and by limiting the ability of criminals to profit from crime.There are five parts to this bill each of which introduces either a new offence or a new enforcement tool to counteract crime. Briefly these include a new offence in the Crimes Act of discharging a firearm with intent to intimidate. This will ensure that those who use guns to frighten and menace can be adequately held to account.Secondly an increase to the number of Land Transport Act offences for which police can seize a vehicle for 28 days. Reckless dangerous or careless driving offences are frequently carried out by organised criminal members travelling in convoys and the amendments in this bill will mean that those who do risk the loss of their bike or their vehicle.Third a new gang conflict warrant which will provide police with new powers to search for and seize weapons. It's not acceptable for warring gangs to terrorise the communities around them the way that we saw in Auckland last year. This power will enable police to act swiftly and remove weapons whenever tensions between gangs arise.Fourth a prohibition on cash transactions over $10000 for those goods that are most frequently used to launder money. Protections against money-laundering are crucial to limiting the profitability and therefore the appeal of crime. By preventing the use of cash to purchase those goods that are at the highest risk of being used to launder money the bill will limit the ability of gangs and other criminals to profit from the harm that they cause.Fifth a new cash seizure power that allows police to seize money found in suspicious circumstances is created. Currently if police find cash during a search they cannot seize it without further evidence that it is the proceeds of a crime. However very few of us innocently carry around tens of thousands of dollars in cash without some ability to account for it. The bill provides that if someone has a significant amount of cash—$10000 or more—and cannot explain how they came by it then police can take the cash for a limited period of time in order to investigate its source.This bill has now been considered by the Justice Committee. I want to acknowledge their work and I want to acknowledge that they must be one of the busiest select committees due to the volume of legislation that has been coming through. The majority of the committee's recommendations relate to the gang conflict warrant provisions. It is appropriate that any new enforcement powers receive robust scrutiny and I'm grateful both to the committee and to those that submitted who commented on this part of the bill in particular.The bill as reported back from the committee is clearer about the matters a judge must be satisfied of before issuing a gang conflict warrant and enables the judge to require a search warrant report. This better aligns the new power with the other warrant powers in the Search and Surveillance Act.The bill also now requires police to provide where reasonably practicable a redacted copy of the warrant to the person being searched. This appropriately balances privacy and operational concerns with a person's right to see the warrant. The committee has also made minor improvements to the new cash seizure powers. If police question someone about suspicious cash found during a search they must now advise the person of their ability to seize that cash. Any money seized must also be listed in the search warrant report if one is requested.Altogether these changes to the bill enhance the transparency of the new powers and they further ensure that these powers will be used appropriately. To those members of the public that submitted and for the studious approach that the committee took again I thank you. Together with the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Amendment Bill—also now progressing through the House this evening—this bill provides a significant check on the criminal activities of organised crime and it sends a strong message that these kinds of crimes will simply not be tolerated in Aotearoa New Zealand. To that point I commend the bill to the House.DEPUTY SPEAKER: The question is that motion be agreed to.