38477 (2025). Lan Pham to the Associate Minister of Finance
Written Question
Published date: 02 Sep 2025
38477 (2025). Lan Pham to the Associate Minister of Finance: What advice, briefings, reports, or any other document, if any, has the Minister or their office received on Strategically Important Businesses (SIB's) in relation to the Overseas Investment (National Interest Test and Other Matters) Amendment Bill, listed by title and date?
Hon David Seymour: My office received the following titles related to Strategically Important Businesses under the Overseas Investment Act.
• Treasury Report T2024/2531: Overseas Investment Act Reform: Core design decisions – 7 October 2024
• Treasury Report T2024/2815: Overseas Investment Act Reform - National Security and Public Order Settings – 24 October 2024
• Treasury Report T2024/2906: Overseas Investment Act Reform: National Interest and Detailed Design – 24 October 2024
• Treasury Report T2024/3213: Supporting material for the Cabinet paper, Detailed Policy Decisions for the Overseas Investment Act Reform – 5 November 2024
• Regulatory Impact Statement: International Investment Screening – 27 November 2024
• Treasury Report T2024/3443: Post-Cabinet matters and detailed improvements to the package of agreed reforms – 19 February 2025
• Aide Memoire T2025/869: Simpson Grierson’s proposals for the Overseas Investment Act – 3 April 2025
These documents have been released publicly and can be found on the Treasury and Ministry for Regulation websites:
• https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/information-release/overseas-investment-act-national-interest-amendments
• https://www.regulation.govt.nz/our-work/regulatory-impact-statements/regulatory-impact-statement-international-investment-screening/