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Govt urged to act quickly on wheel clamping
The new Government is being urged to move quickly on better wheel clamping regulations.
The new Government is being urged to move quickly on better wheel clamping regulations.
COMMENT: New Zealand is not enforcing its building standards strongly enough.
Government eyes tougher regulations on companies that specialise in private home deals.
Momentum is building against cowboy clampers as Auckland's mayor rejoins the fight.
The government is changing rules to the insolvency regime to prevent people convicted of tax evasion or other serious forms of knowledge-based criminal offending becoming practitioners.
COMMENT: It is one thing to toughen the law, but it needs to be properly enforced.
Phone scammers are promising tax refunds and "government grants" to dupe people into revealing personal and financial details.
The Government is reviewing a voluntary code of conduct for wheel-clamping, which Labour and the Automobile Association want made mandatory, with a maximum $50 fee.
More than 30 Russell Brand fans have been forced to forfeit their purchases or pay full price after accidentally being sold $13 tickets for the comedian's Auckland show.
Decades-old laws covering door to door sales laws are set to change later this year.
A law firm is warning real estate agents that new consumer law changes mean they'll need evidence to back up claims made about properties.
It was heartening to read Simon Power's apparent change of heart on the loan shark issue.