Justice Minister Amy Adams will move a motion in Parliament before the first reading of a bill which will allow people to have convictions for homosexual activity wiped. Around 1000 New Zealanders were convicted of indecency between males, sodomy, or keeping places of resort for homosexual before law reform in 1986. Not all of them will be eligible to have their records wiped because they were also convicted of other offences. When the law change was announced, Ms Adams said those with convictions "continued to be tainted with the stigma of criminality". Past laws criminalising homosexual acts had not represented modern New Zealand for some time, she said.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 05, 2017 01:55 UTC