Once signed, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will be the world's largest trade pact in terms of GDP, according to analysts.
The jury which consisted of seven men and five women delivered a unanimous verdict after about 10 hours of deliberations
Jacinda Ardern and her ministers made their oaths of office in English and Maori during a ceremony at Wellington's Government House.
Ardern appointed Grant Robertson as deputy prime minister, making him the first openly gay person to hold the role.
The dual referendums were held on October 17, alongside the general election that returned Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to power with a landslide majority.
Authorities are investigating the incident which is believed to have taken place in the family's home.
Saturday's vote marked the first time any leader won an absolute majority in New Zealand since 1996.
This prompted the party's co-leader Billy Te Kahika -- who has a huge following -- to accuse Facebook of meddling in the upcoming vote.
Masks and distancing are no longer mandatory in New Zealand, an achievement upon which Ardern has staked her political future in Saturday's general election.
The United States, had recorded 5.99 million cases of infection as of 0030 GMT Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University's tracker.
Soon after the punishment was handed down, NZ deputy PM Winston Peters said Tarrant, 29, should be transferred to the Australian prison system.
Tarrant has pleaded guilty to 51 charges of murder, 40 of attempted murder and one of terrorism over the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019.
She expressed dismay after the US president exaggerated the new virus outbreak in New Zealand as a "huge surge" that Americans would do well to avoid.
Ardern was under pressure from political opponents and her coalition partners to shift the original September 19 vote following COVID-19 cases in Auckland.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is set to announce later Friday whether Auckland's lockdown will be extended.
Ardern said authorities were scrambling to trace anyone who had been in contact with four Auckland residents who tested positive Tuesday.
Cultural appropriation backlash lands on the brewery for unknowingly branding their product with a Maori term thinking it means feather or fur.
Australia along with 11 other nations come in second to New Zealand and Japan as world's most valuable passports
Foreign Minister Winston Peters said "New Zealand can no longer trust that Hong Kong's criminal justice system is sufficiently independent from China".
Details of his affair were passed on to Ardern's office on Tuesday by opposition leader Judith Collins.
The National Party selected Judith Collins in a caucus vote late Tuesday, hours after her predecessor Todd Muller unexpectedly quit.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern offered condolences to the officer's family and police colleagues.