In New Zealand there are many ways to lobby your government. To lobby your electorate MP you have to persuade your Electorate MP. One of the ways is sending a letter to the electorate MP. Your letter has to have what you want to change or what you want to have.
When your electorate MP has it he\she takes it to the house of representatives and is then introduced. That is the first step of the Seven of how a bill becomes a law. The next step is going to the first reading. They read and/or listen to it and vote whether it should go to the next step or not.
The next step is that it goes to the Select Committee. This is the only point where the public get to have a say in what they think about the bill.This step could take up to six months just to respond. The bill returns to the House of Representatives with the recommendations of the Select Committee. It then goes to the Committee of the whole house where the bill is broken into little pieces and debated piece by piece.This will be the last chance they get to change the law.
It then goes to the third reading and this is where they have the final debate.They do this and wonder what it would be like if the bill becomes a law.After they have debated then they would send it to the Governor General
If the Governor General likes it then she will sign it and then it is officially a law,but if it is not good then it would be sent back to them and then they would have to edit it and it would not be a law yet.
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