New Zealand Legislation: Acts

3 Supreme Court reconstituted as High Court

• (1) There shall continue to be in and for New Zealand a Court of record, for the administration of justice throughout New Zealand, henceforth to be called the High Court of New Zealand.

  (2) The High Court is hereby declared to be the same Court as that established by this Act, and called, before the commencement of section 2 of the Judicature Amendment Act 1979, the Supreme Court.

  Section 3 was substituted, as from 1 April 1980, by section 2 Judicature Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 124).