New Zealand Legislation: Acts

3 Application of Imperial enactments and Imperial subordinate legislation as part of laws of New Zealand

• (1) The Imperial enactments listed in Schedule 1 to this Act, and the Imperial subordinate legislation listed in Schedule 2 to this Act, are hereby declared to be part of the laws of New Zealand.

  (2) After the commencement of this Act, every provision of the Imperial enactments and Imperial subordinate legislation referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall have the same effect as part of the laws of New Zealand as it had immediately before the commencement of this Act.

  (3) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of this section, it is hereby declared that the Accession Declaration Act 1910 (UK) came into force in New Zealand on the 3rd day of August 1910 (being the date on which it received the royal assent).

  (4) [Repealed]

  (5) Subject to section 6 of this Act, the declaration, by subsection (1) of this section, that the Imperial subordinate legislation listed in Schedule 2 to this Act is part of the laws of New Zealand is without prejudice to any power to amend or revoke that Imperial subordinate legislation, or to declare that it shall cease to have effect as part of the laws of New Zealand.

  (6) Where—

  • (a) Any Imperial subordinate legislation listed in Schedule 2 to this Act is revoked; or

  • (b) It is declared that any such Imperial subordinate legislation shall cease to have effect as part of the laws of New Zealand,—

  the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make such consequential amendments to that Schedule as may be necessary to give effect to that revocation or declaration.

  (7) Every Order in Council made under subsection (6) of this section is deemed to be a regulation for the purposes of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

  Subsection (4) was repealed, as from 1 November 1999, by section 37 Interpretation Act 1999 (1999 No 85).