Anzac Day Act 1966

Reprint
as at 1 April 2004

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Anzac Day Act 1966

Public Act1966 No 44
Date of assent14 October 1966
Commencement14 October 1966
Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This Act is administered by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

An Act to make provision regarding the observance of Anzac Day

1 Short Title

  • This Act may be cited as the Anzac Day Act 1966.

2 Anzac Day to be a day of commemoration

  • (1) In commemoration of the part taken by New Zealand servicemen and servicewomen in—

    • (a) the First and Second World Wars; and

    • (b) the South African War; and

    • (c) the Korean War; and

    • (d) the war in Malaya/Borneo; and

    • (e) the war in South Vietnam—

    and in memory of those who at any time have given their lives for New Zealand and the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations, 25 April in each year (being the anniversary of the first landing of troops from the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand on Gallipoli) shall be known as Anzac Day, and shall be a day of commemoration.

    (2) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, amend subsection (1) by adding to the list of conflicts referred to in that subsection.

    (3) Every Order in Council made under subsection (2) shall be deemed to be a regulation for the purpose of the Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989.

    Section 2: substituted, on 2 September 1996, by section 2 of the Anzac Day Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 107).

3 Observance of Anzac Day

  • (1) Where Anzac Day falls on a Sunday it shall be observed as a Sunday.

    (2) Where Anzac Day does not fall on a Sunday, it shall be observed up to 1 o'clock in the afternoon as if it were a Sunday, and after that hour on that day such activities shall be permitted as may lawfully take place after noon on a Saturday.

    Compare: 1949 No 15 s 2

    Section 3(2): amended, on 1 August 1990, by section 6(2) of the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Act 1990 (1990 No 57).

4 Application to terms of employment

  • [Repealed]

    Section 4: repealed, on 1 April 2004, by section 91(1) of the Holidays Act 2003 (2003 No 129).

5 Anzac Day trusts

  • (1) The New Zealand Returned Services' Association (Incorporated) may, either itself or acting in conjunction with any organisation not prohibited from so doing, take steps to set up a trust in accordance with this section, and may appoint trustees to receive donations and grants from time to time for such specified charitable purposes as are publicly notified by the trustees before Anzac Day in any year as the purposes for which donations and grants to them in that year will be applied.

    (2) Any local Returned Services' Association affiliated with the New Zealand Returned Services' Association (Incorporated) may, either itself or acting in conjunction with any organisation not prohibited from so doing, take steps to set up a trust in accordance with this section, and may appoint trustees to receive donations and grants from time to time for such specified charitable purposes as are publicly notified by the trustees before Anzac Day in any year as the purposes for which donations and grants to them in that year will be applied.

    (3) Any such trustees may receive donations and grants from persons, companies, and societies, whether incorporated or not, carrying out activities on Anzac Day at a profit, and from other persons and public bodies.

    (4) Subject to the provisions of subsection (5), in any case where steps are taken under this section to set up a trust, the body or bodies taking the steps may execute an instrument appointing trustees of all donations and grants made to the trustees under this section and providing for the administration of the money and property to be held by the trustees and for their powers in respect thereof.

    (5) All money and property held by any trustees who are appointed as aforesaid shall be applied at the discretion of the trustees for the specified charitable purposes for which they were received as aforesaid by the trustees.

6 Repeal

  • The Anzac Day Act 1949 is hereby consequentially repealed.

Contents

  • 1General

  • 2Status of reprints

  • 3How reprints are prepared

  • 4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • 5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Anzac Day Act 1966. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the Act as at 1 April 2004, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

    Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that have yet to come into force or that contain relevant transitional or savings provisions are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order.

2 Status of reprints

  • Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

    This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

  • A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/legislation/reprints.shtml or Part 8 of the Tables of Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations, and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

    A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

    In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

    • •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)

    • •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

    • •layout of provisions, including:

      • •indentation

      • •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

    • •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)

    • •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)

    • •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)

    • •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)

    • •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •case and appearance of letters and words, including:

      • •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)

      • •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

    • •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)

    • •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

  • Holidays Act 2003 (2003 No 129): section 91(1)

    Anzac Day Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 107)

    Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Act 1990 (1990 No 57): section 6(2)