The Government will introduce revised Three Strikes legislation in a move it says makes it clear that serious violent or sexual offending is not acceptable in New Zealand society.

Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee made the announcement today, alongside Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. The bill has not yet been drafted - it's expected the draft bill will go before Cabinet in June, and be introduced to the House shortly after.

A similar "Three Strikes" law was brought in under the previous National Government, but was scrapped under the last Labour Government.

It aimed to deter offenders with the threat of progressively punishing repeat offenders. Someone convicted of a third qualifying offence automatically received the maximum penalty without parole, barring some exceptions - that which a court determined would be "manifestly unjust".

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