Editing Pepper spray (section)

===New Zealand===
* Classed as a restricted weapon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1984/0122/latest/whole.html |title=Arms (Restricted Weapons and Specially Dangerous Airguns) Order 1984 |publisher=Parliamentary Counsel Office |access-date=2014-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017190759/http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1984/0122/latest/whole.html |archive-date=2014-10-17 |url-status=live }}</ref> 
** A permit is required to obtain or carry pepper spray. 
** Front-line police officers have routinely carried pepper spray since 1997. New Zealand Prison Service made OC spray available for use in approved situations in 2013. 
** [[New Zealand Defence Force]] [[Military Police]] are permitted to carry OC spray under a special agreement due to the nature of their duties.
** The [[Scoville scale|Scoville]] rating of these sprays are 500,000 (sabre MK9 HVS unit) and 2,000,000 (Sabre, cell buster fog delivery). This was as a result of excessive staff assaults and a two-year trial in ten prisons throughout the country.<ref>Broadstock, M. (2002) [http://nzhta.chmeds.ac.nz/pepper_spray.pdf What is the safety of "pepper spray" use by law enforcement or mental health service staff?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041206102807/http://nzhta.chmeds.ac.nz/Pepper_Spray.PDF |date=2004-12-06 }}, NZHTA Tech Brief Series 2002; 1(2). {{ISBN|1-877235-39-3}}.</ref>