Migration Act 1958

There is a class of temporary visas to be known as special category visas.

A criterion for a special category visa is that the Minister is satisfied the applicant is:

a non‑citizen:

who is a New Zealand citizen and holds, and has presented to an officer or an authorised system, a New Zealand passport that is in force; and

is neither a behaviour concern non‑citizen nor a health concern non‑citizen; or

a person declared by the regulations, to be a person for whom a visa of another class would be inappropriate; or

a person in a class of persons declared by the regulations, to be persons for whom a visa of another class would be inappropriate.

A person may comply with subparagraph (2)(a)(i) by presenting a New Zealand passport to an authorised system only if:

the New Zealand passport is of a kind determined under section 175A to be an eligible passport for the purposes of Division 5 of Part 2; and

before the person is granted a special category visa, neither the system nor an officer requires the person to present the passport to an officer.