Search:

Reading the Act without analysis and then applying subjective meaning? Yes.

From Te Tari Pureke:

The cost of the Firearms Registry

It has cost $10.4 million to establish the Firearms...

Reading the Act and interpreting the Act are quite different. You seem to have read it.

so are you suggesting that there will be 100% cost recovery for the set up and running of the registration scheme?

100% recovery?? Police have proposed 25, 50 or 75% cost recovery in fees, haven't they? And no decision yet. Plus a new government.
...

Good. Thats the best thing Ive ever seen him write. A good balanced perspective.