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Add to web feed | Public Act | 1931 No 13 |
| Date of assent | 31 August 1931 |
An Act to make Provision in Relation to the Publication of an Annotated Reprint of the Public Acts of New Zealand under the Title of “The Public Acts of New Zealand (Reprint)”
, and to empower the Courts to take Judicial Notice of such Reprint.
WHEREAS arrangements have been made for the publication in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-two of an annotated reprint of the Public Acts of New Zealand, with amendments incorporated, under the title of “The Public Acts of New Zealand (Reprint)”
: And whereas it is desirable that all Courts and persons acting judicially should be empowered and directed to take judicial notice of the said reprint:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
This Act may be cited as the Reprint of Statutes Act 1931.
In this Act—
The New Zealand Editorial Board means the Board appointed by the Government for the purposes of the reprint
The reprint means the annotated reprint of the Public Acts of New Zealand, with amendments incorporated, proposed to be published in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-two under the title of “The Public Acts of New Zealand (Reprint)”
.
(1) On being satisfied, after receipt of a report from the New Zealand Editorial Board, that the reprint correctly expresses and sets forth the law enacted in the several Public Acts contained in the reprint, the Attorney-General shall sign a certificate in the form in the Schedule hereto, or to the effect thereof.
(2) A copy of the certificate of the Attorney-General shall be printed with and incorporated in the reprint, and such certificate shall in relation to any enactment contained in the reprint be proof until the contrary is proved, either by the production of the official volume of statutes in which such enactment was originally contained or otherwise, that the reprint correctly expresses and sets forth the law enacted by that enactment and the amendments thereof, if any, as the same is in force at the date of the certificate.
Judicial notice of the reprint shall be taken by all Courts and persons acting judicially and the provisions of section 16C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, shall extend and apply thereto.
Section 4 was amended, as from 1 August 2007, by section 216 Evidence Act 2006 (2006 No 69) by substituting “section 16C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989”
for “section twenty-nine of the Evidence Act 1908”
. See clause 2(2) Evidence Act 2006 Commencement Order 2007 (SR 2007/190).
FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE REPRINT OF STATUTES Act 1931. I, , His Majesty's Attorney-General in the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby certify that the reprint of the Public Acts, with amendments incorporated, as contained in the publication to be published under the title of The Public Acts of New Zealand (Reprint), correctly sets forth the law enacted by the several enactments contained therein, as at the date of this certificate. Given under my hand at Wellington this day of , 1932. , Attorney-General.
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