Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 Commencement Order 2025
Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 Commencement Order 2025
Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 Commencement Order 2025
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Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 Commencement Order 2025
Cindy Kiro, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 10th day of November 2025
Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council
This order is made under section 2(1) of the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.
Order
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This order is the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 Commencement Order 2025.
2 Commencement of Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025
The Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 comes into force on 15 December 2025.
Rachel Hayward,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the order but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This order brings the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2025 (the Act) into force on 15 December 2025.
The Act amends the Land Transport Act 1998 (the principal Act) to enable the use of roadside oral fluid screening testing directed at detecting and deterring drug-impaired drivers.
This order is accompanied by the Land Transport (Oral Fluid Samples) Regulations 2025. Those regulations, which also come into force on 15 December 2025, prescribe procedures for the obtaining, handling, retaining, transferring, and disposing of oral fluid samples by enforcement officers, approved analysts, and private analysts under the principal Act, as amended by the Act.
Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.
Date of notification in Gazette: 13 November 2025.
This order is administered by the Ministry of Transport.
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