The first reading of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Bill, a piece of proposed legislation aimed at assisting in the protection of New Zealanders from cybercrime, was held on October 15.
Paul Goldsmith, New Zealand’s justice minister, stated in a news release that the proposed law contains provisions intended to bring New Zealand’s domestic laws into compliance with the Budapest Convention.
The bill’s provisions include:
The Search and Surveillance Act of 2012 includes new preservation guidelines that aim to give law enforcement the authority to mandate that businesses keep documents that might be used as proof of a crime.
modifications to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992 that seek to strengthen New Zealand’s capacity to request assistance from other nations in criminal investigations and to provide assistance to other nations in exchange
modest changes to the Crimes Act of 1961 that aim to guarantee that crimes associated with computer use and cybercrime are comprehensive and fully compliant with the standards of the Convention.
According to a news release from the New Zealand government, the proposed legislation will help law enforcement agencies better safeguard New Zealanders by giving them the resources they need to identify, look into, and prosecute criminal acts, including those that happen online.
In the press release, Goldsmith underlined how fraud and cybercrime have caused serious financial losses as well as psychological suffering. According to Goldsmith, 11% of New Zealanders were victims of these crimes in 2023.
The sole legally binding international agreement against cybercrime, according to Goldsmith, is the Budapest Convention, also called the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime. According to Goldsmith, the Convention aims to harmonise the member nations’ legal systems and facilitate their collaboration in criminal investigations.
“By joining the convention, we are signalling to the other like-minded countries that we take cybercrime seriously and we are prepared to do our part to eliminate it,” Goldsmith said in the news release of the New Zealand government.
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