Gaming act outlawed puckapoo and fan-tan two chinese games of chance
Immigration Restrication Act which along with excluding criminals, the insane and people with infectious 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 workers.
Amendment to the shops and office act staed 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 fruiteres from using their childreb as unpaid workers.
war refugees,including allowed to come on a temporary basis. Tax on chinese abolished
English language test and the linking of the residency with tax payments once again restricted the numbers of chinese who were able to qualify as immigrants
Immigration review permitted chinese with professional qualifications to come to New Zealand
The old age pensions act excluded naturalised chinese.
Business immigration policy selected immigrants on their personal qualities and not on their race