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Cluster Munitions Prohibition Bill

This bill will enable New Zealand's ratification of the Cluster Munitions Convention, which establishes a wide-ranging prohibition on the use of cluster munitions that cause unacceptable humanitarian harm.
Member in charge: Hon Georgina te Heuheu
Type of bill: Government
Parliament: 49
Bill no: 52-2
Introduction: 21/7/09
First reading: 28/7/09
Referred to: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee
Submissions due: 10/9/09
SC report(s): 30/11/09
Second reading: 10/12/09
Third reading: 10/12/09
Royal assent: 17/12/09
Act: Cluster Munitions Prohibition Act 2009 (09/68)