New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Jurisdiction as to mentally disordered persons, etc

• The court shall also have within New Zealand all the jurisdiction and control over the persons and estates of mentally disordered persons, and persons of unsound mind, and over the managers of such persons and estates respectively, as the Lord Chancellor of England, or any Judge or Judges of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice or of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, so far as the same may be applicable to the circumstances of New Zealand, has or have in England under the Sign-manual of Her Majesty or otherwise.

  Compare: 1882 No 29 s 17

  Section 17 heading: amended, on 1 April 1970, pursuant to section 129(4) of the Mental Health Act 1969 (1969 No 16).

  Section 17 heading: amended, on 1 January 1970, by section 36(1)(a) of the Guardianship Act 1968 (1968 No 63).

  Section 17: amended, on 1 January 1987, pursuant to section 5(2) of the Constitution Act 1986 (1986 No 114).

  Section 17: amended, on 1 April 1970, pursuant to section 129(4) of the Mental Health Act 1969 (1969 No 16).

  Section 17: amended, on 1 April 1970, pursuant to section 129(7) of the Mental Health Act 1969 (1969 No 16).

  Section 17: amended, on 1 January 1970, by section 36(1)(a) of the Guardianship Act 1968 (1968 No 63).

  Section 17: amended, on 1 January 1970, by section 36(1)(b) of the Guardianship Act 1968 (1968 No 63).