Patch 2025.01

January 2025 proposals

People aged 65–71 would face jury service, while deliberately or recklessly striking an undefended person’s head or neck would become an offence, potentially murder if fatal.

• People aged 65–71 could face jury service — It would raise the automatic jury-service excusal age from 65 to 72.
• New offence for unprotected head strikes — It would create an offence for intentionally or recklessly striking an undefended person’s head or neck, with death treated as murder.
• Proposal to overhaul insurance law dropped — This proposal was dropped; it would have combined insurance rules and strengthened protections for consumers and businesses.
• Auckland Future Fund rules proposed — It would set legal rules for managing and distributing Auckland’s Future Fund.