Chinese Immigration to New Zealand timeline

May 14, 1881

Gaming Act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan two Chinese game of chance.
May 14, 1881

Poll Tax Law which made every Chinese person pay ten pound tax. (and the 1888 and 1896 amendments).
May 14, 1896

The Poll Tax was increased to a hundred pounds.
May 14, 1898

The Old Age Pensions Act exculded naturalised Chinese.
May 14, 1898

Shearers Accommodation Act stated that Chinese in the industry were to have seperate accommodation from the rest of the employees.
May 14, 1899

Immigration Restriction Act which along with excluding criminals, the insane and people with infections diseases also excluded Chinese.
May 14, 1904

Shops and Offices Act stated that only British subjects could decide on the opening hours of shops and offices in each district.
May 14, 1907

English Reading test for 'Aliens' which included Chinese.
May 14, 1908

Chinese prevented from becoming naturalised citizens.
May 14, 1910

Factories Act limited the hours that laundries employing more than two people could be open. This affected Chinese laundries as most of them employed more than two working.
May 14, 1920

Immigration Restriction Act which required all aliens to apply for a permit to come and only the Minister of Cstoms could decide who was allowed to come as permanent residents.
May 14, 1927

Amendment to the Shops and Offices Act stated that all people working in fruit shops apart 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
May 14, 1939

War refugees, including Chinese, allowed to come on a temporary basis. Tax on Chinese abolished.
May 14, 1950

No more temporary permits or student visas issued to Chinese although Chinese men were permitted to brin their immediate family to New Zealand.
May 14, 1974

Immigration review permitted Chinese with professional qualifications to come to New Zealand.
May 14, 1987

Business Immigration policy selected immigrants on thier personal qualities and not on thier race.
May 14, 1995

1996, English langauge test and the linking of residency with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of Chinese who were able to qualify as immigrants.

Gaming Act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan two Chinese game of chance.

Poll Tax Law which made every Chinese person pay ten pound tax. (and the 1888 and 1896 amendments).

The Poll Tax was increased to a hundred pounds.

The Old Age Pensions Act exculded naturalised Chinese.

Shearers Accommodation Act stated that Chinese in the industry were to have seperate accommodation from the rest of the employees.

Immigration Restriction Act which along with excluding criminals, the insane and people with infections diseases also excluded Chinese.

Shops and Offices Act stated that 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 employing more than two people could be open. This affected Chinese laundries as most of them employed more than two working.

Immigration Restriction Act which required all aliens to apply for a permit to come and only the Minister of Cstoms could decide who was allowed to come as permanent residents.

Amendment to the Shops and Offices Act stated that all people working in fruit shops apart 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 brin their immediate family to New Zealand.

Immigration review permitted Chinese with professional qualifications to come to New Zealand.

Business Immigration policy selected immigrants on thier personal qualities and not on thier race.

1996, English langauge test and the linking of residency with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of Chinese who were able to qualify as immigrants.