New Zealand Legislation: Acts

16A Power to award damages as well as, or in substitution for, injunction or specific performance

• Where the court has jurisdiction to entertain an application for an injunction or specific performance, it may award damages in addition to, or in substitution for, an injunction or specific performance.

  Compare: Chancery Amendment Act 1858, 21 and 22 Vict, c 27 (UK); Supreme Court Act 1981 s 50 (UK)

  Section 16A: inserted, on 1 January 1989, by section 2 of the Judicature Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 117).