Protected Objects Act 1975

This is a reprint of the Protected Objects Act 1975. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the Act as at 1 April 2011, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/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.

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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).

Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011 (2011 No 3): section 128

Limitation Act 2010 (2010 No 110): section 58

Customs and Excise Amendment Act (No 3) 2008 (2008 No 68): section 19

Protected Objects Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 37)

Secondhand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Act 2004 (2004 No 70): section 89

Archives, Culture, and Heritage Reform Act 2000 (2000 No 32): section 12

Auckland War Memorial Museum Act 1996 (1996 No 4 (L)): section 32(3)

Customs and Excise Act 1996 (1996 No 27): section 289(1)

Copyright Act 1994 (1994 No 143): section 236(1)

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Act 1992 (1992 No 19): section 34

Historic Places Act 1980 (1980 No 16): section 61