Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Alcohol Levy Order 2025: revoked, on 1 July 2026, by clause 6 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Alcohol Levy Order 2026 (SL 2026/174).

Cindy Kiro, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 23rd day of June 2025

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Health.

This order is made under clause 4 of Schedule 6 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022—

(a)

on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and

(b)

following a determination by the Minister of Health made in accordance with clause 3 of Schedule 6 of that Act.

1	Title
2	Commencement
3	Interpretation
4	Amounts of levy set out in Schedule
5	Rates determined for classes of alcohol described as having variable rate
6	Revocation
	Schedule Rate and amount of levy for each class of alcohol
	Explanatory note
	Gazette Information
	Notes

Order

1 Title

This order is the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Alcohol Levy Order 2025.

2 Commencement

This order comes into force on 1 July 2025.

3 Interpretation

In this order, Act means the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022.

4 Amounts of levy set out in Schedule

The amount of levy payable under clause 5 of Schedule 6 of the Act for each class of alcohol for the financial year beginning on 1 July 2025 is set out in the third column of the Schedule.

5 Rates determined for classes of alcohol described as having variable rate

The rates used to determine the levy for the classes of alcohol described in the table in Schedule 7 of the Act as having a variable rate (classes B, E, and F) are set out in the second column of the Schedule.

6 Revocation

The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Alcohol Levy Order 2024 (SL 2024/123) is revoked.

Schedule Rate and amount of levy for each class of alcohol

cls 4, 5

Class of alcohol	Rate applied for purposes of clause 3 of Schedule 6 of Act	Amount of levy (dollars per litre of alcohol)
A	1.50%	0.007890
B	4.65%	0.024471
C	8.00%	0.042078
D	10.00%	0.052597
E	17.74%	0.093323
F	38.52%	0.202587

Rachel Hayward,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which comes into force on 1 July 2025,—

fixes the amount of the levy payable for the financial year beginning on 1 July 2025 for each class of alcohol described in the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (the Act); and
identifies the variable rate that the Act requires the Minister of Health to determine annually for each of the 3 classes of alcohol described in the table in Schedule 7 of the Act as having a variable rate (classes B, E, and F); and
revokes the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Alcohol Levy Order 2024.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 26 June 2025.

Notes

1 General

This is a consolidation of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Alcohol Levy Order 2025 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.

3 Editorial and format changes

The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Alcohol Levy Order 2026 (SL 2026/174): clause 6

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