Gaming Act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan Chinese games of chance
Poll tax law qhich made every Chinese person pay a ten pund tax. (and the 1888 and 1896 amendments)
The poll tax was increased to a hundred pounds
The old age Pensions act excluded naturalised Chinese
Shearers Accommodation act stated that Chinese in the industry were to have separate accommodation from the rest of the employees
Immigration Restriction Act which aling with excluding criminals, the insane and people with infectious diseases also excluded Chinese
Shops and offices Act stated the only British subjects could decide on the opening hours of shops and offices in each district.
English Reading test for 'Aliens' which included Chinese
Chinese prevented from becoming naturalised citizens
Factories Act limited the hours that laundries emplying more than two people could be open. This affected Chinese laundries as most of them employed more than two workers
Immigration restriction Act which required all aliens to apply for a permit to come and only the minister of customs could decide who was allowed the come as permanent residents
Amendment to the shops & Offices Act stated that all people working in fruit shops apary from the owner and his/her spouse had to be paid the basic wage. This stopped Chinese fruiterers from using their children as unpaid workers
War refugees, including Chinese, allowed to come on a temporary basis. Tax on Chinese abolished
no more temporary permits or student visas issued to Chinese although Chinese men were permitted to bring their immediate family to NZ
Immigration review permitted Chinese with professional qualifications to come to NZ
Business immigration policy selected immigrants on their personal qualities and not on their race.
English language test and the linking of residencys with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of chinese whoo were able to qualify as immigrants
English language test and the linking of residencys with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of chinese whoo were able to qualify as immigrants
