New Zealand Legislation: Acts

1 Short Title and commencement

• (1) This Act may be cited as the Territorial Sea, Contiguous Zone, and Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1977.

  (2) Section 29 shall come into force on the passing of this Act.

  (3) Except as provided in subsection (2), the provisions of this Act shall come into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council.

  (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), 1 or more Orders in Council may be made—

  • (a) bringing different provisions of this Act into force on different dates; and

  • (b) bringing provisions of this Act into force on different dates in respect of specified parts of New Zealand.

  Section 1(3): sections 1, 2, Part 1, sections 31, 32, 33(1) (with specified exceptions), and 33(2)–(4) brought into force in respect of the parts of New Zealand specified in Part B of the Schedule of the order, on 1 October 1977, by the Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act Commencement Order 1977 (SR 1977/245).

  Section 1(3): the rest of this Act brought into force in respect of the parts of New Zealand specified in Part B of the Schedule of the order, on 1 April 1978, by the Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act Commencement Order 1978 (SR 1978/62).

  Section 1(1): amended, on 1 August 1996, by section 5(3) of the Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 74).