(1) The Parliament of New Zealand hereby assents to the establishment, by Proclamation, from time to time by Her Majesty and Her successors of a seal to be known as the Seal of New Zealand for use in relation to New Zealand and all other territories for whose foreign relations Her Majesty's Government in New Zealand is responsible.
(3) No Proclamation made for the purposes of this section shall be required to be sealed, and every such Proclamation that does not prescribe the time from which it is to take effect shall come into operation on the day on which it is gazetted.