New Zealand Legislation: Acts

80 Interpretation

• In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—

  Document, in relation to a solicitor, includes—

  • (a) Any paper, deed, security, or instrument (including a negotiable instrument); and

  • (b) Any postal article within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 1998, including any such article delivered or to be delivered to any private box used for the purposes of the solicitor's practice; and

  • (c) Any document delivered or to be delivered to a document exchange box used for the purposes of the solicitor's practice; and

  • (d) Any reproduction or copy of a document:

  Document: paragraph (b) was amended, as from 1 April 1998, by section 62(1) Postal Services Act 1998 (1998 No 2) by substituting the words “the Postal Services Act 1998” for the words “section 12 of the Post Office Act 1959”. See clause 2 Postal Services Act Commencement Order 1998 (SR 1998/49).

  Record includes—

  • (a) Any file, register, ledger, book of account, or passbook, and any reproduction or copy thereof or of any entry therein; and

  • (b) Any apparatus or equipment in or on which information is recorded, stored, or embodied in any form so as to be capable of being retrieved, reproduced, or processed by any means; and

  • (c) Any material by means of which information is supplied to or derived from any such apparatus or equipment.